Faroe day 7

aug 17 wed
walk from Hvalvik to Vestmanna - 10 km
we set out nice and early this morning to catch the 7:55 bus into Hvalvik, where we paced up and down for an hour before finding the start of the trail. I guess in the end we actually invented it, but we managed to reach the actual trail after a while.
note to self: never save on maps! always get one that has the STARTING point of the path if it's the only interesting thing on it.
the rest of the trail was quite well marked with cairns that just about showed the direction, helped by the electricity line, as there wasn't an actual path as such. anyhow, we reached a nice point where to have lunch after about 3.5 hrs, and it then took us an extra hour to reach Vestmanna. we just used the road for this last bit as my left knee started giving me trouble, so we decides to end the walk the easy way :)
the weather was ok, sunny in patches, but the clouds were high up, so no real problems there.
in Vestmanna we visited the Saga museum that told us, with the help of some very realistic characters, the story of the early settlers. we had earphones taking us through this journey through time and it was very nice. there was a café -hear hear- so we took advantage of some refreshments while waiting for the bus back to Tórshaven.
we topped the day with dinner in the Irish pub, quite filling and good food. and, above all, NORDIC CIDER!!!
a very enjoyable day - yes, another one :)