en route to the Faroe Islands where we will start life together in Klaksvik. After a week of marriage, we left my home in rural America, a place of big highways, big sky and a big family, to travel across [...] first time in months, Ben began to teach me essential Faro­ese. Unfortunately, as he spent most of his youth living in the Phi­lippines his spoken Faro­ese is not so great, either. We are limited to phrases [...] dollar to spend. On the island of Samos, within sight of the Turkish coast, we stayed with a lovely pair of English teachers who treated us to the only bed in the apartment and an eagerness to talk politics

helst eina stutta frágreiðing: ­ You hand in your ticket And you go watch the geek Who immediately goes up to you When he hears you speak And says, How does it feel To be such a freak? And you say, Impossible [...] magic swirlin´ ship My senses have been stripped, my hands can´t feel to grip My toes too numb to step Wait only for my boot heels to be wanderin´ ­ Hvat er tað fyri skip, sum her ve rður sungið um? Svarið [...] of the hanging They´re painting the passports brown The beauty parlor is filled with sailors The circus is in town Here comes the blind commissioner They´ve got him in a trance ... ­ Hvat hendir her? kunnu