Sunset at Gøtugjógv - a photo on Flickriver

            Of course I took my pinhole with me (one of them at least).  And in this case I took it to dinner as well.

As I mentioned in an earlier post, there are two main cities in the Faroe Islands: Tórshavn on the island of Streymoy and Klaksvík on the island of Borðoy in the eastern part of the archipelago.  If you were not in one of those cities there were few places to pop in for a meal.  I spent several days in the town of Leirvík, just through the undersea tunnel from Klaksvík, so I was only about a 10 minute drive away.  However the tunnel costs about $14 dollars each round trip so I wasn't terribly keen on adding $14 to my dinner bill by driving to Klaksvík.  Lucky for me, going about 12 minutes to the west I could pass through another tunnel (this one through a mountain, not under the sea, and free) and arrive in the town of Gøtugjógv.  I think they have one restaurant.  There might be another but I didn't see it (they also have a soccer pitch, so there's that).  The restaurant goes by the name of Brimborg and my Airbnb host pointed me toward it.  I think I ate dinner there four nights straight.  It was a quiet little restaurant with never more than 4-5 tables full at once so I got to talk to the restaurant manager quite a bit.  He shared all sorts of fascinating Faroe Islands info with me such as the backstory behind Jolly cola which had once been a Dutch cola, was discontinued and then resurrected by a brewery in Klaksvík.  I had seen Jolly cola in the grocery stores, had never heard of it, tried it, enjoyed it, but had no idea it was local to the islands.  I learned about the education there, the fishing, the food.  So much about the food.  He loved offering to explain the ingredients to each meal, where they were sourced, and how they were prepared.  I learned their chef is from Thailand and then I learned how in the world a Thai chef ends up in the Faroe Islands (many jobs like head chef in nice restaurants are globally sourced by headhunting firms since employment in the Faroe Islands is almost 100% and therefore it can be difficult to find good, local candidates). I ate a nice range of dishes.  One night it was a local specialty: cod.  The next it was a Thai curry.  The third I had to try their burger.  It was all delicious and I enjoyed returning there every evening.  It became a bit of a ritual.  After the first night the manager noted I loved the view out their back windows which looked out on this bay.  I think the second night I showed up and enjoyed a gorgeous sunset during dinner but had left my cameras at home, because hey, it was only a 12 minute drive to get dinner.  But the third, or fourth, night I took my pinhole along just in case.  I also got there a little bit earlier so I was finishing up my meal right about the time of sunset.  It was on that evening I popped out behind the restaurant after my meal and made this image.  I'll remember it for the restaurant right behind where I am standing here and less for the beautiful scene in front of me though.  But I like that.

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Kodak Ektar 100

Taken in: Faroe Islands / Eysturoy / Gøtugjógv (show map)

Taken on: May 5, 2023

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