The ABC's Foreign Correspondent this week had a long story on the Faroe Islands - a place I had never heard of before.
As this intro says:
The Faroe Islands, midway between Scotland and Iceland, were settled by Vikings a thousand years ago. Remote and intriguing, they look like something out of a Norse fairy tale.
People live in log houses with turf rooves, speak an ancient Viking language and delight in dressing up in traditional costume and singing Norse ballads.
They also eat pilot whales, even though the amount of heavy metals in them means that the government advises against it. (Shades of eating dolphin in Japan.)
Still, the story was fascinating, the scenery spectacular.
I think it is repeated sometime again over the weekend, and then it turns up on broadband on their website.
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