For a remote break, go where the puffins outnumber the people The remote, sparsely populated and wonderfully wild Faroe Islands have all the credentials for providing post-pandemic holiday relief 24 May 2021 • 5:00am On a trip to the Mulafossur waterfall in Gasadalur you can watch the spiralling, slender cascade, as elegant and streamlined as a ballerina’s pirouette If sights and smells can take the traveller to a different place, sound is the key to unlocking another era. Stood at the mouth of a U-shaped valley yawning into the North Atlantic Ocean, I closed my eyes and listened, waiting for a centuries-old symphony to begin.