2673 DENMARK (Faroe Islands) - Traditional food

2673 Faroese specialities. From ther left: hares, whale meat strips,
guillemots, intestines, cod's heads, dried fish, and dried sheep meat.
In the front: beets, sheep stomach and tallow, and potatoes. 

Traditional Faroese food is mainly based on meat, seafood and potatoes and uses few fresh vegetables. Mutton is the basis of many meals, and one of the most popular treats is skerpikjøt, well aged, wind-dried mutton, which is quite chewy. The drying shed, known as a hjallur, is a standard feature in many Faroese homes, particularly in the small towns and villages. Other traditional foods are ræstkjøt (semi-dried mutton) and ræstur fiskur, matured fish. Fresh fish also features strongly in the traditional local diet, as do seabirds, such as Faroese puffins, and their eggs

2659 DENMARK (Faroe Islands) - The Tórshavn Fire Brigade testing a new fire engine in 1962

The inhabitants of Tórshavn, the capital city of Faroe Islands, numbered 984 in 1880. Most of them were living in the "Reyn" quarter of the town where the houses were huddled together, prompting extreme caution when people were dealing with fire. There were no fire hydrants, water pipelines being non-existent. In case of fire a fire pump was hauled to wherever the fire had broken out. Water for the fire pump was retrieved from the sea or from rivers.

2658 DENMARK (Faroe Islands) - The Toftir Lighthouse

Eysturoy (Danish: Østerø) meaning "East Island" is the second-largest of the Faroe Islands, both in size and population, separated by a narrow sound from the main island of Streymoy. It is extremely rugged, with some 66 separate mountain peaks, including Slættaratindur, the highest peak in the archipelago. Toftir is a fishing port, part of a chain of villages stretching over a distance of 10km on the east side of Skálafjørður (fjord), near the southern end of the island.

1138 DENMARK (Faroe Islands) - Kamarið Cliff in Suðuroy

Covering 163.7 square kilometres and being inhabited by 4,678 people, Suðuroy (literally South Island) is the southernmost of the Faroe Islands. It is the island which has the most islets and skerries (263), and also the only of the 18 islands of the Faroes which has a coalmine still active. The highest point of Suðuroy is the mountain Gluggarnir (610m), but the most famous peak is definitely the mountain of Beinisvørð north-west of the village of Sumba. The Beinisvørð and its scenery have been praised by the local poet Poul F. Joensen (1898–1970), as well as other Faroese poets. The western side of the island has been identified as an Important Bird Area by BirdLife International because of its significance as a breeding site for seabirds, especially Northern Fulmars, European Storm Petrels, European Shags, Black-legged Kittiwakes, Atlantic Puffins, Common Guillemots and Black Guillemots. On the postcard is Kamarið (The Chamber), near the village Vágur, situated on the east coast of the island on the Vágsfjørður fjord.

0114 DENMARK (Faroe Islands) - ...bygði þenna stað fyrst (...lived in this place first)

I received this wonderful maxicard issued by Faroe Islands from Kajo, which is Finnish and apologizes that had no maxicard from his country within reach and therefore he sent me this one. No problem, Kajo, the maxicard looks so good, that I make an exception, so to speak. And how an exception is followed, as is well known, by another, the maxicard arrived to me in envelope, so it wasn't circulated normally, as I like it. But if you look on her back, you will notice that couldn't otherwise, so this exception isn't even an exception.