Faroe Islands Travel Forum

I will be in the UK for about a week late next May.

My wife and kids wanted to go to Scotland and I thought it would be interesting to combine this with a trip to the Faroes.

Any suggestions on an itn?

We need to start and end in London - Gatwick, but want to spend all the time in the north.

Thanks.

I'm sure the Faroes are fascinating, but not particularly easy to get to from Scotland. You will need to take a ferry from Lerwick on Shetland or, possibly, Scrabster on the north coast of Scotland (if the ferries run at that time). Ferries here: http://www.aferry.to/faroe-islands-ferries.htm

Flying is possible (from London, with some flights stopping at Aberdeen) but will be expensive (and you will have a very limited choice of flights). Operator is Atlantic Airways on www.atlantic.fo

Why spend a few days on Orkney & its islands instead? Full of history, unspoilt, fantastic for birds and views: lokk at the VT Orkney pages for info & tips. Highly recommended! Ferries to Orkney from Scotland on http://www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk/orkney/pentlandferries/index.html

You can fly from Inverness, Aberdeen and Edinburgh (as well as English airports), should you wish: carrier is British airways (www.britishwairways.com) but again, it won't be cheap.

If you do intend to fly to either destination then you should book your tickets as soon as you can; flights are few, planes are small and they fill up quickly.

If you've never been to Scotland before, one week can be very well spent without going off-shore except for Skye perhaps.Weather in may??? de p.

oops ...failed to read your other postings......in context ... delete my previous! Silly me I thought you wanted to visit the UK.

Agree with leics - Orkney and Shetland are wonderful - I have spent two weeks in each and still needed a lot more time.