I’ve wanted to discuss this in a way. When I first realized it was when we moved from Reykjavík to the Faroe Islands, and then I worked for two years in Denmark, my wife and kids were here. I traveled to Denmark, worked for 9 days and went home for 5 days. I remember lots of colleagues in Copenhagen being like “how can you do that? How is your wife accepting that? And your kids?” But somehow I felt privileged, compared to the fishermen. If you look back 75-100 years back, sailing was almost your only opportunity. Finish school – it was almost just the discussion of whether you should start sailing at age 14 or 16. If you had a disability or something, you’d become maybe something where you could work in an office, if there was an office. But everybody was sailing, so my grandfather, my mother’s father, he sailed with Maersk almost his entire life as a captain. And I remember him telling me, the first time (becoming a father), when my mother was born, there were two trips, the first one, he went out  and he came back 16 months later, sailing, then he came home and he was home for 4 weeks or something. He then went out and was away for 11 months while she was just a small kid. One of those trips, maybe the second one, he had to go in land in San Francisco, and he had to pay for the return trip home, that was not with Maersk, that was some other company. But still it was like that often. Many years back. When he was here in Gøta again, he had spent all the money getting back. So its’… That’s just a part of it… I’ve heard often, that the population in the Faroe Islands is the most flexible in the world.

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