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Denmark.dk about the Faroes
Here is a series of very informative articles about the Faroe
Islands:
(Source: www.denmark.dk)
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Into the Mystical Unreal Reality of the Faroe Islands
By Stephen Metcalf, 25 March 2007:
"In a small cafe in a town called Nolsoy, on an archipelago in the middle of the
North Atlantic, surrounded by barflies and the blue fug of cigarette smoke, I am
trying to be unobtrusive. This is not going so well."
Read more here:
New York Times Travel, T Style Magazine
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Fit for the Faroe Islands
By Catherine Watson, Reporting from The Faroe Islands,
July 02, 2009
"The islands have unstable weather but steady culture and
constant beauty... From the mountaintop road above Kvivik, green
slopes fell steeply away to the sea, drawing my eyes outward,
over the village, to the soft shapes of other islands drifting
in the pale blue distance. More than a thousand years of Faroe
Islands history lay in that view. It was like looking at a map
of time itself."
Read more here:
Los Angeles Times > Travel Section
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Beguiling land of the Faroes
By Tony Wheeler, co-founder of Lonely Planet, 29 August 2009:
"These tiny islands might be isolated, but they are easy to explore", says Tony
Wheeler.
Read more here:
The Independent, Travel in Europe
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The World's Most Unspoilt Islands
By Rob Mason, May 8, 2009:
Rob Mason has a brief glimpse of the 18 islands that specialise in
weather and long, long summer days
Read more here:
Times Online
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Northern Rocks
By Ruaridh Nicoll, 22 June 2008:
"For years Ruaridh Nicoll had been hearing stories of
adventure and friendship in the Faroe Islands from his father-in-law, an artist
who knew them intimately in the 1970s. But when they finally travelled north
together, would everything have changed?"
Read more here:
The Observer Sunday
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Hardy country
By Sarah Crown, Thursday 8 July 2004:
"Drawn to the untamed scenery of the Faroe Islands, Sarah Crown finds a
remote land where the sheep are fearless, the birds are shrewd and the
weather is a state of mind"
Read more here:
Guardian.co.uk
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Far Away in the Faroes
Jan 2010:
"Although the young generations mostly go to Denmark for the several
years of their university life, a surprising 90 per cent of them
return to settle down. Having spent an all too brief four days
there, it was easy to see why they would be reluctant to leave, even
for the bright lights of Copenhagen."
Read more here:
The Post.ie - The Sunday Business Post Online, Ireland
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Travel Faroe Islands
By Ricky, 22 August 2009:
"The fascinating Faroes are simply a short air-trip away from the United
Kingdom; still they would be vouched as the rather off-beaten tracks to
be ventured out for a standard tourist. Afloat in the foaming engorges
of the northern Atlantic; the mystic eighteen part jigsaw riddle of
islands is a tasteful blend of primeval and ultra-contemporary."
Read more here:
Journey Idea, Fascinating Islands,
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The Middle of Nowhere
By Sara Blask, 2007:
"Caught in the North Atlantic between Iceland
and Norway, the Faroe Islands may mean “sheep islands,” but take
a road trip and you'll realize there’s more to this archipelago
than its name reveals."
Read more here:
Iceland Review
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Faroe Islands Travel
"The Faroe Islands are sure to awaken your senses with their
emotive and evocative displays of nature...It’s difficult to
imagine that such a place still subsists. Idyllic yet
tempestuous, the oft fog veiled treeless moorlands of the Faroes
are peppered with multicolored cottage dwellings, grass roofed
wooden churches and Viking stone farmhouses and sheep flocking
on green pastures of scotch heather.... Looking for an unsual
experience?"
Read more at:
www.traveltribe.com
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Faroe Islands - The Next Country?
Elin Brimheim Heinesen was the Managing Director of SamVit - the
Faroe Islands Tourist Board and Trade Council - from 2007 to
2009 until SamVit merged with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
She wrote a few articles about the Faroe Islands now and in the
future which have been published or quoted in several
publications abroad.
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Faroese Short Film "A Bad Day" Screens
At European Indie Film Festival 2010
15 Feb 2010:
A short film by Faroese film-maker Bjarki Thomsen "A Bad
Day" will be screened at the European Independent Film Festival
(ÉCU) which screens the very best independent films from around
the world to a large audience of filmmakers, film industry
professionals and a public that craves the energy and free
spiritedness of creative independent films.
ÉCU 2010 will be held at Le Grand Action Cinema in Paris, France
from 12th-14th March, 2
Read an interview with film-maker Bjarki Thomsen here:
www.fest21.com
Watch the trailer to
"A Bad Day" here.
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The Faroes' Summer Music Festival
By Paul Sullivan, Saturday 2 January 2010:
"Fancy something less commercial than Glasto or Benicàssim? Then try the
Faroes' G! Festival, with its quirky bands and amazing setting."
Read more here:
The Guardian
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The End of the World
By Will Hodgkinson, Sunday 14 June 2009:
"The Faroe Islands, halfway to Iceland, has a tiny population with a huge
appetite for fish, whale hunting and astonishing music. Will Hodgkinson meets
the indie bands and folk singers - and the group that plays cement mixers."
Read more here:
The Observer
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Roaming Camera Catches Life on the Faroe Islands
By Janet Maslin, March 30, 1991
"Katrin Ottarsdottir's "Atlantic Rhapsody: 52 Scenes From
Torshavn," the first and only feature film by a director native
to the Faroe Islands, is also a novelty on another score. Its
narrative focus is shifted successively from one character to
another, in the manner of a relay race, throughout the film's
entire running time."
Read more here:
The New York Times > Movies: Review/Film
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Shrimp Dispute With Canada:
Faroe Islands In A Fume Over Port Closures
Tuesday, February 23, 2010
CANADA - The Canadian government’s decision
last week to ban Danish fishing vessels from East
Coast ports for overfishing of shrimp has been
knocked as “heavy-handed” and “unacceptable” by the
Faroe Islands, whose fleets were also affected.
Faroe Islands Foreign Minister Jørgen Niclasen said
his fleets will defy Canada and continue to combat
NAFO’s “unreasonable and unfair allocation” for
Danish fishers in the 3L zone.
Read the whole article here:
fis.com/fis/worldnews/
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Atlantic Airways summer 2010 services:
Twice A Week Between London And The Faroes
Atlantic Airways, the national airline of the
Faroe Islands, is to operate a twice-weekly service
(Mondays and Thursdays) from London Stansted
throughout June, July and August. The flights, which
actually begin on 3 June and end on 30 August, will
take just over two hours.
Read more here:
www.shephard.co.uk
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Shrimp War:
Faroe Islands blast Canada’s ports ban in
fishing dispute.
By Randy Boswell, Canwest News Service, Feb
20, 2010
"Canada’s decision last week to bar
Danish-flagged fishing ships from East Coast ports
as punishment for the alleged overfishing of shrimp
has been slammed as “heavy-handed” and
“unacceptable” by the Faroe Islands, whose fleets
were targeted by the measure."
Read more:
http://www.montrealgazette.com
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Shrimp War Continues:
Faroes And Greenland Make Breaking News In Canada
HALIXAX, Canada -
These days the Faroe Islands and Greenland have made
headlines in media all over Canada. Canada followed
through Monday on a threat to close East Coast ports
to fishing vessels from Greenland and the Faroe
Islands after the Danish negotiation delegation
failed to agree to a 334-tonne shrimp quota in
international waters off the Newfoundland coast.
According to Canadian Fisheries Minister Gail Shea
"They (Faroese and Greenlandic Fishing boats)
currently catch more than 10 times what their
allocated quota is... in the interim, our ports will
remain closed," she said after a one-day conference
in Halifax with fisheries ministers from the region.
Here are some of the articles in Canadian Press:
www.vancouversun.com
www.cbc.ca (Feb 14)
www.cbc.ca (Feb 15)
news.aol.ca
ca.news.yahoo.com
www.onenewspage.com
themessagenetwork.biz
gorillaradioblog.blogspot.com
www.vocm.com
www.winnipegfreepress.com
forums.canadiancontent.net
www.torontomassageparlor.com
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Oil-Industry:
Three wells in prospect off the Faroes
Offshore staff, Feb 15, 2010
TORSHAVN, Faroe Islands – "The Faroe Islands’ Minister of
Trade and Industry Johan Dahl has approved extensions for three
hydrocarbon exploration licenses. Included in this agreement is
a firm commitment for an exploration well."
Read the article here:
www.offshore-mag.com
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Canada closes ports to Faroe Islands
by Adrian Wyld/TCPI/The Canadian Press, Feb. 14, 2010
"OTTAWA — Minister of Fisheries and Oceans Gail Shea responds to
a question during Question Period in the House of Commons on
Parliament Hill in Ottawa, Wednesday Sept. 30, 2009. Canada is
closing its ports to fishing boats from the Faroe Islands and
Greenland because of their refusal to accept international
shrimp quotas, Federal Fisheries Minister Gail Shea announced
Sunday. The ban takes effect Monday. "We have acted in good
faith for several years to try to resolve this issue, to no
avail," Shea said in a statement.
Read the article here:
www.ctv.ca
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Fishing dispute heats up
Randy Boswell, Canwest News Service, 1 Feb 2010
The conflict between Canada and Denmark is heating up over
the northern shrimp. Federal Fisheries Minister Gail Shea has
blasted Denmark for alleged overfishing in international waters
off the coast of Newfoundland, warning fleets from
Danish-flagged Greenland and Faroe Islands that they'll be
barred from Canadian ports unless they agree -- within two weeks
-- to adhere to a 3,100-tonne shrimp quota for Greenlandic and
Faroese fleets just beyond Canada's 350-kilometre economic zone,
which "sets a dangerous precedent that could impact conservation
of the species," the Canadian government said in a statement
last week.
Read more here:
www.nationalpost.com
Or here:
www.vocm.com
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Canada warns Faroes and Greenland on overfishing of
Altantic shrimp
27 Jan 2010 12:00
TheCanadian Minister of Fisheries and Oceans, Gail
Shea, has taken action against overfishing of Division
3L shrimp by Faroese and Greenlandic fishing vessels in
the Northwest Atlantic Fisheries Organization (NAFO)
Regulatory Area (NRA).
Read more here:
www.fishnewseu.com
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Fishing Agreement 2010
Jan 19, 2010:
"The European Commission, negotiating on behalf of the European
Union, and the Faroe Islands have agreed on the levels of
fishing possibilities in each other's waters, as well as access
provisions for blue whiting for 2010."
Read more here:
European Comission > Fisheries > Press Corner
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North Atlantic News: Faroese Ports Highlighted
By Búi Tyril, May 21, 2009
"On the occasion of the Fish Expo Faroes 2009 trade show in
Tórshavn 27-29 May, we're publishing the debut issue of North
Atlantic News. This is a special-focus, magazine-style
publication with the first issue dedicated to coverage of the
Faroese ports and shipping sector."
Download the 2009 Issue here (PDF):
North Atlantic News - 2009 Issue
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Faroe Business Report 2008
"The reports present most of the major developments and
important events, however, as these relate to the products and
services offered by the leading companies highlighted—the
businesses and organizations that together represent the bulk of
Faroe Islands exports and some of the vital services in the
country’s business environment."
Download the report here (PDF):
The International Review of Faroe
Islands Industry and Trade
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Annual Business Report 2007
"The reports present most of the major developments and
important events, however, as these relate to the products and
services offered by the leading companies highlighted—the
businesses and organizations that together represent the bulk of
Faroe Islands exports and some of the vital services in the
country’s business environment."
Download the report here (PDF):
The International Review of Faroe
Islands Industry and Trade:
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Avantgarde Fashion:
bARBARA i gONGINI Continues To Get Rave Reviews
bARBARA i gONGINI is taking on the catwalks around the world
and continues to impress style reviewers everywhere .
Imagine Lifestyles:
"Her take on fashion, and life is elitist, bold, daring and
eloquent. Barbara í Gongini should make no apologies but rather
continue to design because this is what high society is all
about. Stylists, keep Barbara i Gongini's line in mind for the
next Costume Institute Gala at The Metropolitan Museum of Art...
Celebrities wear avant-garde and futuristic fashions ever
pushing the artistic envelope and we respect it all. Barbara i
Gongini is looking to expand her collection into high end bags,
jewelry and shoes, you go girl!"
View some more reviews here:
tmagazine.blogs.nytimes.com
www.imaginelifestyles.com
coolechicstylefashion.blogspot.com
www.coolhunting.com
afashiontale.thepop.com
wunderbuzz.co.uk
coutequecoute.blogspot.com
www.breathe-design.com
www.lesmads.de
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Copenhagen Fashion Week 2010:
Fashion, Slow and Rare: Gudrun & Gudrun
by Kai Andersen, Feb 13, 2010
"Gudrun & Gudrun’s Autumn/Winter 2010 showing in Copenhagen
reminded me that style doesn’t always originate in the world’s
urban centers, an idea that we should take more to heart in the
Pacific region. Gudrun & Gudrun, in fact, comes from the very
antipodes of the fashion capitals. The label was founded by two
women from the Faroe Islands, a remote chain of islands in the
North Atlantic with a population of just 45,000 with a language
closely related to Old Norse. The label’s unique look comes from
the isolation of the Faroe Islands paired with an occasional
burst of energy from Europe."
Read the article here:
kailahawaii.com
- Hawaiian Netmagazine
And about G&G Kidswear here:
kailahawaii.com/2010/02/13/gudrun_gudrun_kids/
Visit:
www.gudrungudrun.com
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Copenhagen Fashion Week 2010:
bARBARA i gONGINI
"Barbara I Gongini, originally from the Faroe Islands ...
showed her 2nd runway show this season. The collection featured
architectural hair and body paint. The choreography was one of
the most complicated and well executed I've seen in some time.
For this season, Gongini referenced and exploration of 2 and 3
dimension and experimenting with how to create garments using
the fewest incisions possible."
Read more here:
dianepernet.typepad.com
"Barbara i Gongini was an another interesting name ... A
particular ongoing motif is her knitted tulle pieces which were
the talking points of the collection. Based on the knitting
tradition of the Faroe Islands, an agressive volume is created
with endless lengths of tulle. In a largely black collection,
the tulle also provided the only flash of dramatic colour in
fluro pink and bright yellow."
Read more here:
www.dazeddigital.com
Visit:
www.barbaraigongini.dk
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Faroese Designers In The Spotlight
26 Oct 2009:
"For the first time, a hand-picked selection of independent, cutting edge
designers from the Faroe Islands are coming to London to showcase their
Spring/Summer 2010 collections."
Read more here:
Sustain Your Style, Fashion Website
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Paradise Found - Gudrun & Gudrun's otherworldly new
knitwear.
By Loryn Hatch, October 22, 2007:
"It's here that natives Guðrun Ludvig and Guðrun Rógvadótti
brought together fashion-as-we-know-it with the resources and
perspective unique to the eighteen mountainous islands they call
home.
Named Gudrun & Gudrun, Ludvig and Rógvadótti's label made its
debut this fall with a line of inventive, couture-like knitwear
that's as city smart as it is homegrown."
Read more here:
www.refinery29.com
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Football:
The Premier League in the Faroes
Nordic Football News, Thu, Mar 04, 2010:
The Faroes founded their own Premier
League, now known as Vodafonedeildin, in 1942. The league boasts
ten clubs and operates off a system whereby two teams are
relegated and promoted every season. Lets have a closer look at
the teams that compete in this league and face the endless task
of trying to woo bigger crowds away from watching English
football on their armchairs and into their stadiums.
Read the
article here:
www.nordicfootball.info
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Football:
Kerr Seeks To Revive Tiny Islands
Nordic Football News, Thu, Feb 11, 2010:
It`s hard running a national football team drawn from a
windswept archipelago, marooned halfway between Scotland and
Iceland, with a population that does not succeed 50,000.... Kerr
(Ed.: Brian Kerr, coach of the national football team) is
looking forward to ties with Northern Ireland and Estonia,
especially the former as his father was born there. The Irishman
is well aware of what goals he has and how he can achieve them.
As one of the six nations in the bottom seeds, he is aiming to
emulate Liechtenstein who have played their way into the next
pot up “The target would be to be in the second lowest pot next
time around. To do that will be hard, but I feel we can build on
the last qualifiers where we won a game and pushed France hard
at home”. “The under 21`s have got eight points so far so we
have the promise of some good players coming through” said Kerr.
Read more here:
www.nordicfootball.info
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Football:
Faroe Islands in group C in the UEFA 2012
Follow the Uefa Euro 2012 qualifying draw - as it
happened. Read this article about all the plastic
ball-by-plastic ball action as Europe's national sides learned
their fate in Warsaw. Read here:
www.guardian.co.uk/football
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New Boy Can Make A Faroe Impression
by Neil Farrington, Sunday Sun, Feb 7 2010
Unkown Newcastle new boy Joan Simun Edmundsson has been
backed to make an impact on Tyneside. Faroe Islands starlet
Edmundsson is understood to be arriving on loan at St James’
Park from his local club B68 Toftir until the end of the season
with a view to a permanent move. And Faroe Islands’ national
coach Brian Kerr believes the 18-year-old forward can earn a
long-term stay in the North East. Read more at:
www.sundaysun.co.uk/sport
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Britain claims Rockall - again
BBC- Tuesday, 2 March 2010:
BBC - Surrounded by rich fishing grounds and oil reserves,
Rockall is about 25 metres wide at its base and stands 70 feet
tall. It is a disputed territory with three other countries -
Ireland, Iceland and the Faroe Islands - also claiming
sovereignty of the area."We landed [on Rockall] in 1955... We
raised the flag and put the Queen's plaque on there claiming it
for Britain and the disputes been going on continuously ever
since," said Andy. Andy Strangeway sailing towards Rockall in
2008."While researching this it came to my attention that the
Queen's plaque is no longer on there. So we obviously need it
back up there as soon as possible." Read the article here:
news.bbc.co.uk
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History:
The Story Of The Sunken Ship SS Sauternes - "Jólaskipið"
"On the late afternoon of Sunday 7th December, 1941, the
Merchant Navy steamship SS Sauternes was lost off the Faroe
Islands in the North Atlantic and all 25 crew and passengers
died ... The December visit of the ship was eagerly anticipated.
It was called by the locals Jolaskipid , or ‘the Christmas
Ship', because as well as carrying 3,000 gallons of petrol,
garrison supplies, 22,000 Danish Kroner, minted in Scotland
because it was impossible to get coinage from Copenhagen, it was
also on this December trip carrying Christmas puddings, Scotch
Whisky, and Christmas gifts."
Read the rest of the story here:
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as it was told by the Reverend Canon Dr David Kennedy at the
Sermon at Durham Cathedral, Remembrance Sunday Service, preached
on Sunday 11th November 2007.
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Funny Story About Faroese Drunken Sailors in 1972
Shetland Times March 10, 1972:
"Faroese terrify Unst families. A detachment from the RAF
station at Saxa Vord rushed to the aid of Unst lightkeeper's
families in the early hours of friday morning when three drunken
Faroese fishermen created havoc at the shore station at
Burrafirth."
Read the
whole article in Shetland Times here.
Read an
article in Scottish Daily Express about the same incident here.
Read a blog about the incident here:
ahistoryofrafsaxavord.blogspot.com
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Whale Slaughter Claim Misleading
Quote from an Article on the website Opposing Views >
Society > Animal Rights:
"The recent video depicting the slaughter of long-finned
pilot whales in the Faroe Islands was misleading in terms of
impact and incorrectly asserted that this was a "rite of
passage" for the island's teens."
Read the whole article here:
www.opposingviews.com
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The Pilot Whale In The Living Room
By Catherine Watson, June 5 2009:
"The magazine (National Geographic Traveler) called them
"authentic, unspoiled and likely to remain so." But to outsiders
like me, one tradition doesn't fit the image. Call it the whale
in the living room, or the grindadrap, the periodic harvest of
long-finned pilot whales."
Added to the article are also some beautiful photos of the Faroe
Islands.
Read more here:
Los Angeles Times > Travel Section
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The Faroe Isles: Open House At Puffin Central
By Julie Davidson, 20 Aug 2001
The Faroes, with their wonderfully vivid birdlife and unyielding
landscape, weave a simple magic on Julie Davidson: "NOT a nice
bird," says Inga, as we teeter along a tightrope of turf on the
cliffs of Mykinesholmur. "It pukes on you." Thus the fulmar is
dismissed with distaste. We won't risk invading its colonies,
which it reasonably defends by spitting evil-smelling oil at
intruders, because we have other fish to fry and birds to toast
- both areas of expertise on the Faroe Islands. Inga and I are
on one of the great seabird walks of the world."
Read more here:
www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/
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Færøerne udpeget som de dejligste øer i verden
Af Søren Astrup, 31. okt 2007:
"Ingen andre øer overgår Færøerne i herlighed, fastslår det amerikanske
rejsetidsskrift National Geographic Traveler."
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