The overlooked Faroes are just a quick flight from the UK, yet they are way off the typical traveler’s radar. Adrift in the foaming swells of the north Atlantic, this mystifying 18-piece jigsaw puzzle of islands is at once ancient and very modern. Multicolored cottages and grass-roofed wooden churches add focus to the grandly stark, treeless moorlands. Timeless networks of footpaths crisscross mountains. But even the smallest once-inaccessible villages are now linked by an extraordinary series of road-tunnels. And even as you jog around the spectacular fjords on a 70-year-old wooden sloop.

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