The Information Centre
Services in Nólsoy
If you fancy winter surfing, swimming in the sea, Faroese village food, perfect peace or the ”Tower at the End of the World,” we can provide you with your best experience ever:
The Shop (+298 327150)
a guided tour across the island stories about pirates, heroes and very capable women, whose job it was to milk cows in the outfields a good healthy meal made from Faroese primary products enjoy tasty Nólsoy-vaffles at the tiny beach at Malarenda on a good summer day a game on the football field or a race-run to Borðan during winter time you can enjoy the peacefulness and bleating sheep amongst the houses in the village Only 20 minutes on a ferry from the capital we welcome all of you who want to visit the outstanding and beautiful island. Big or small families, children, grownups, sporting people, knitting bees, colleagues, concerns and everyone else, Faroese and foreigners. If you would like a meal or if you want to stay overnight, we recommend that you contact us as early as possible in order to give us enough time to prepare your visit. Call us at +298 327060 or +298 527060 or write to us info@nolsoy.fo. During the summer our very cosy Tourist Information is open from 10 am –17 pm.
During the summer – 15th May to 14th September: Monday to Friday
9.30 am–17.30 pm.
Saturday
9.00–12.00 am
During the winter – 15th September to 14th May: Monday to Friday
9.30 am–14.00 pm and 16.00–17.30 pm
Saturday
9.00–12.00 am.
The post office
The Light House The trip starts from the village Nólsoy and goes along the old path with cairns to Borðan, which is the most southern part of outfields on the island. After the gate there is a walk up the hill-side. Then there is a place on a rock face where one can climb up – called Oyggjarmúli – and then you pass Kagan, where the people in Nólsoy used to be on watch for pirates. On top of the island it is level all the way to Borðan. You will pass three outfields on your way and it is very peaceful and beautiful. You can watch and listen to birds, see hares and the view is magnificent. Towards south you can see Skálhøvdi on Sandoy, the globes on Sornfelli on Streymoy and the firth called Skálafjørður to the north. At Borðan you can see the lighthouse – ”the Tower at the End of the World” as the author Willliam Heinesen called it and the villagers call it the lighthouse on Tumbanum. The lighthouse and the other houses there were built in 1893 and are made from Faroese stone.
The post office is in the shop and is open on Monday, Wednesday and Friday 11.00–12.00 am.
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Up the Ship
Jens-Kjeld Jensen
The lens in the lighthouse is 2,82 m high and weighs 4 tons, the lens apparatus is one of the world’s greatest of a kind. The lighthouse at Borðan is one of ten lighthouses in a Danish coin series called ”Tårnmønster” (2002–2007).
This trip takes you from the village across the outfield and up to the point in the mountain where the villagers used to look out for pirates and hide from them. The view from there is magnificent, towards east you can see the ocean and to the north several islands.
Jens-Kjeld is an ornithologist, a specialist in birds and stuffs birds too. He is also interested in insects and plants and has a garden in the village with most kinds of willows to be found in the Faroe Islands. Willows have grown here since ancient times.
The Old Warehouse
Three families used to live at Borðan and when they were at the most 10 children lived there, who went to school at Borðan and in the village. There is a boathouse and a landing place for boats, that used to come from Nólsoy and Argir, when the people used to cut peat in the outfield there.
On your way you will pass the Corn Valley and see the ancient settlement. The ruins can still be seen. One of them is called the Princess Ruin after the legend about a Scottish princess who fled with her fiancé from her father and settled there.
You can visit his workshop in arrangement with the him and it is possible to buy stuffed birds and other souvenirs.
Monday to Friday Saturday
Ask at the Information Centre or call Jens-Kjeld Jensen at +298 327064 or contact him on jkj@olivant.fo. Visit his website www.jenskjeld.fo.
The coffee shop serves food and drinks and is on-licenced (serves alcohols). WiFi.
If the weather is good you can sail to Borðan and passengers can be set ashore and then walk back to the village. This trip takes around 4 –5 hours. If you choose to walk both ways it is around 22 km and is estimated to take around 8 hours. This trip is for people who are used to walking and is not recommended for children under the age of 12.
You can buy homemade products in the old fashioned shop. From 15th May–15th September it is open from: 13.30–16.30 pm 11.00 am–14.00 pm
The Coffee Shop (+298 327175/327025)
Open: Sunday to Thursday
17.00–23.30 pm
Friday to Saturday
17.00 pm–2.00 am
Cash dispenser
Unfortunately there is no cash dispenser in Nólsoy, but the Shop, the Coffee Shop and the Information Centre all accept payment cards.