This article was produced by National Geographic Traveller (UK). The weather is famously fickle in the Faroe Islands. In the mountains, roads vanish into fog within seconds; by the sea, winds howl ...

When I picked up the keys to my rental car in the Faroe Islands, the agent slid me a contract unlike any I’d seen. No clauses about mileage, no small print on insurance. Instead, it was more of an ...

“Please sir, we like to keep our grass alive. Stay on the road if you can,” called the passing local from his car. A tourist had stepped onto a meadow, above the tiny Faroese village of Bøur, to ...