Apart from Listasavn Føroya, a visit to the Williamshús, William Heinesen Museum, is a must, in particular, if you can manage to convince his son, the painter Zakarias Heinesen, to guide you through his house. Williamshús is the private residence and primary workplace of the Faroe Islands most famous writer, William Heinesen. The house is […]
Among our priorities were of course the Listasavn Føroya in Thórshavn founded as late as 1989! It contains a fantastic collection of Faroese art from 1830 and onwards, including Sámal Joensen- Mikines (1906-1979), Ruth Smith (1913-1958), Janus Kamban (1913-2009), Jack Kampmann (1914-1989), Jóannes Kristiansen (1918-1988), Ingálvur av Reyni (1920-2005), Hans Jacob Glerfoss (1937-2010), William (1900-1991) […]
The history of the Faroe Islands starts at Kirkjubøur, on the southern part of Streymoy. Here, the Catholic church established a diocese under the bishop in Lund in 1111. The present church, Ólavskirkja, is the oldest church on the Faroe Islands, constructed in 12th century. The church was renovated in 1966-1967 when its appearance before […]
On Friday the 30th of January 2015, our third grandchild, Vera, was born at 8:30 am at Sjællands Universitetshospital, in Roskilde (51 cm long; weight 3270 g). During breakfast with Frida at seven o’clock in the morning, the sack of amniotic fluid broke and Micahel called her num to arrange transport to the Kindergarten for […]
During the period 16-23 September 2019 we visited the Faroe Islands together with Anne Grete Harlou, who shared all her experiences and knowledge on the islands with us. We had rented a house in Stykkið close to Leynar on Streymoy, where Anne Grete and Bjørn lived during their more than 15 year stay. From the house we […]
On Saturdayd the 6th of April 2013, Gitte gave birth to our second grandchild after a rather complicated pregnancy. Gitte and Michael arrived at Roskilde Sygehus at 02:30 p.m. and by 04:50 Gustav was born (50 cm long; weight 3400 g). The birth was quick, but tough to both Gitte and Gustav, however, the happy […]
On September 22nd we celebrated Frida’s two years birthday. Mum and dad had decorated the table, and mum had also made her famous birthday cake. Great fun to see that we all, except Frida, were exited to see her unpack her gifts! Grandmum spend time in France to trace a Corolle doll with clothing of […]
Due to Frida’s birthday, our annual visit to discover the “outback of Iceland” did not take place until the last week of September. Autumn colors were still present, but the weather was bad with one exception: Tuesday the 25th. Although Reykjavík early in the morning was covered in fog, the weather forcast was sunshine with […]
Our annual meeting with Evi and Gerd took place in Berlin during the period 17-19 August 2012.The highlight was the unforgettable visit at the Pergamon Museum to see Asisi’s panorama: “Pergamon-Panorama of the Ancient Metropolis”, which took the visitor off on a journey through time to the Greek/Roman city of Pergamon in the spring of […]
Magne, Unnur, Markús and Hafdís In 2012 our August visit to Burgundy took place from the 23rd to 31st. Due to bad weather conditions during most of the year, including hail in Côte de Beaune, the harvest was late, and we had no problem as to organizing tastings. We spent the first two days with […]