I've stayed here three times over the last five years, it's a favourite. I usually travel solo, and I'm always on a budget, and the Faroes is EXPENSIVE ! You can get to Gjaargardur in the miniscule and beautifully picturesque village of Gjojv ( about twelve families in total) in an hour by car or by public bus if you're a bit canny with reading timetables. There's two buses each day in the low season, three in the high season. You need to phone the bus company to let them know to pick you up from Oyrarbakki, where you get off/meet the bus 400 Torshavn-Klaksvik. The phone number is on the Timetable, available from the Bus counter at the ferry/bus terminal in Torshavn . Wierdly, Tourist Info in Torshavn doesn't have these. The bus staff speak and understand English. You'll need to use a public phone OR buy a Faroese sim card ( 100 krone, with included calls) from the Phone company shop up the street from Tourist Info as the Faroe phone company ( wierdly, but you get used to wierd in the Faroes) has no roaming correspondence with any other phone company/server in the world.
So, you arrive at Gjojv after an hour and a bit bus ride through some of the most stunning sceney I've seen anywhere in the world, and the bus meanders down a long single road through the glacial valley and stops at Gjaargardur. You're there. If you hired a car and did it the fast way- same sceney but you'll have had your eyes on the road so you didn't hit the sheep that tend to wander over it and you may have missed the view.
There are nice new rooms completed last year (2009) with ensuite, standard hotel prices, fabulous view. If you're not scared of shared bathrooms, you can do it cheaply by booking a "Viking Bed", which is like a large cupboard set under the eaves of the main house with a window to the sky through the grass roof- cozy, and quite private once you close your cupboard door. It's big enough for two without bags -there is space for bags in draws just outside your cupboard. If you want security when you go hiking, bring a small padlock for your cupboard door, but this is hardly necessary in this part of the world. There is a power point in the cupboard just above your head for charging phones, computers.
There is no share use kitchen, but this didn't stop a Czech family travellling cheap from boiling up their rice in the bathroom. Breakfast is included with your room and consists of the usual Scando fare (and homemade Rhubarb jam) except the meat is not your normal cheap ham and salami, but three kinds of Faroese sausage made from lamb- tasty!
They do Smorbrod for lunch, but dinner is the big event- one main dish (no menu) which might be a fish curry, pork , chicken or beef dish, and if you're there on the right night, New Zealand lamb ( it's way cheaper in Faroe than the local stuff) prepared and roasted to a Faroese recipe. Rice or potatoes and salad on the side and a home made dessert plus coffee.Beer etc available. I can't remember the price, but it's quite reasonable by local standards. It's a friendly and flexible kind of place, and I would not be the least surprised if they agreed to make a vegetarian dish if you asked in advance. The manager, Eric, smart, sympathetic and worldly, has had the place for five years and plans to stay for a few more.
Now, more about Gjojv. There's a very cute church ( Eric has a key), one little cafe apart from Gjaargardur that opens on Summer afternoons and serves excellent fish soup, a delightful stream through the middle of the village with quacking ducks and ( on a sunny day ) a shallow pond for children to frolic in, and plenty of hills to climb and birds to watch if that's your thing. If you have good legs, about 90 minutes walk back up the road ( very little traffic) to the top of the valley brings you to the cairn trail down into the sweet village of Funningur, and you can ride back to Gjojv on the 3.30 bus ( if you phone the bus company two hours ahead). On the other hand, you may, like me, just enjoy the quiet and the music of the stream while reading a book or inspecting the back of your eyelids.
Just one more thing, Gjaargardur has wireless free internet, it belongs to the civilised world.
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