When you arrive at FOE, you are on Vágar island, but the capital Torshavn (and most amenities) are over on Streymoy, the next island over.

Until 2002, that involved driving to the north side of Vágar and taking a ferry to Vestmanna, and backtracking up the fjord and across the high peaks of Streymoy on Oyggjarvegur (the "Island Road"), but a second wave of civil engineering investment in the Faroes now have turned most of that route into tunnels (one long undersea tunnel to Streymoy, and two short tunnels connecting the fjords).

Leaving the airport, you are immediately in typical Faroe Island scenery: deep blue water (here it's actually freshwater, the large Leitisvatn lake) and deep green hillsides with steep cliffs.



Typical Faroese landscape: a mix of soft rolling grass-covered hills with no trees, and some relatively high peaks and the occasional steep cliff.

This is similar to the Eastern Fjords of Iceland, although the Faroes are about 60m years older:



Looking over Leitisvatn:



Sandavagur, one of the three villages on Vagar island. This is the first real settlement you come to, and actually fairly large by Faroese standards:



A good overall image of some of the notable parts of the Faroes:

1. The two islands Koltur (no longer inhabited) and Hestur (sparsely inhabited) with steep cliffs (1000' cliffs are 'normal' in the Faroes, with steep ones almost half a mile high not uncommon).

2. Aquaculture rings: the round rings in the foreground are aquaculture pens.