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 [...] was my duty to defend our leader. We may have been wrong as we cast our votes, but we were not that wrong. In these circumstances Ben only has to explain where the Faroes are located; I have to try and explain [...] 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
country is what makes it so full of opportunities for a person to shape life as he or she pleases. And coming in as an outsider is no barrier to fitting in and utilizing what the country has to offer. It is [...] About to begin a new chapter of my life in their country, I was utterly convinced that very few Americans were normal according to the standards on which I usually judge people. In addition, the country [...] country simply seemed too big to grasp fully, mysterious in some ways, and maybe even a little dangerous. The usual reaction I get when talking to people at home about studying in the U.S. is something like
need to be any conflict of interests between exploring for oil and developing an oil industry and at the same time to look for other ways of producing energy. We need the oil, and incomes from oil can help [...] between the Faroes and Shetland, as an area for oil and gas exploration. As a Minister for Research, I find it tremendously intriguing to think about oil exploration in this area, also known as the Atlantic [...] made it possible to come up with quite accurate descriptions of the different layers of rock and sediments thousands of metres below the surface. On this background it is possible to make predictions of
its benefits as people see other societies, but also needs to get them back home. Small societies The Faroes has a lot to give the world in how to manage remote and small societies and could in the future [...] herself never been to war. From remote to central The Faroes have always paid the price of being “The Far Away Islands”. But this remoteness is no longer an obstacle. Modern technology makes knowledge accessible [...] society. The Faroes belong to the richer parts of the world, but the next two decades might just see the Faroes rice to the very top. The inborn societal conscience creates a will to create. The rise of educational
and a study is underway to investigate the practicality of using the constant rhythm of the waves to generate power. To capitalize on this growing interest in the Faroes and to foster accelerated collaboration [...] back to the Faroes in the not too distant future to relax a bit in this most peaceful and enterprising corner of the planet and to seek out a quiet cup of coffee with a newfound friend or two to catch [...] wife, as they graciously listened to my endless tales of growing up on a Colorado ranch. The talk, however, thankfully soon turned to wool, the Faroese gold of old, and how it could and should be better exploited
the cashier started to talk to me, asking how I was doing. I had never seen this person before and stammered something about how I was tired, to which she replied that I should try some guarana because [...] the way to school, we stopped at a Wal-Mart, a gigantic get-everything-you-can-dream-of kind of store to pick up a comforter, pillow and other necessities to get by our first night. When I went to pay, the [...] now. After a month or two, things started to gradually get easier. I began to fathom the culture of Arkansas, to empathize with their values, and more important, to understand my own Faroese culture; who
was the then American Foreign Secretary of State Mrs Madeleine Albright. The very first woman to be elected to such a high office in the history of America – today Ms Condolisa Rice holds this office. Mrs [...] course exciting in its own right if a woman was to become the very first President in the world’s strongest superpower. Even more interesting however, is how the »cocktail« Angela Merkel – Hillary R. Clinton [...] Clinton will impact the global situation. To see if a lower level of testosterone on the power pinnacles of the world will improve the opportunity to strike a better balance in decreasing tensions between
course, have to have effective strategies. This is a very small country and our budgets are equally small – so we must know how to get attention in a way that is not too costly. We have to rely heavily [...] for a travel industry as such, so we need to make people in the Faroes more aware of the fact that they can earn a living from tourism. SamVit has set out to improve this and many other things that affect [...] Until recently, you were unlikely to find any material about the Faroes at your local travel agency. Today the Faroes, like everything else, are just a click away. But to make people in the outside world aware
need to embrace change to whatever extent necessary. The ability to cooperate effectively and develop strong networks is becoming more important. And still it is crucial for us to hold on strongly to our [...] this as an opportunity. To stay competitive, we have to be inventive and learn how to develop new concepts and fresh thinking. And when setting our goals and objectives, we have to be strategic and think [...] is created here. Actually, I was invited to the island Antigua to sit under a palm tree, but I preferred to visit the Faroe Islands – maybe because it seems to suit my temperament more.« Bad Weather Has
the oil found on our CS is of sufficiently good quality to extract, says Eli, who does not think that the oil should be extracted and taken to the Faroes. It does not make sense to transport the oil to [...] an opportunity for me to meet Oil Companies that may wish to come to Faroe Island to drill and, of course, also those who work at a short distance from the Faroese/UK border. If Oil Company works on the [...] would be much too expensive to make a terminal and lay new pipelines to our islands. In Shetland, we find an oil terminal with all the equipment necessary; we can, sell the oil to them and take the proceeds
