For a less strenuous hike close to the guesthouse, there is an excellent tree-top canopy walk along a series of rope-and-plank suspension bridges 15m above the ground.

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That, at any rate, is the belief of the Faeroese hardy and tenacious folk whose favourite delicacy, puffin chicks, can only be procured by dangling on a rope hundreds of feet below a sheer cliff-top and robbing the nests of unfortunate seabirds.

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