Faroe Islands or Copenhagen?

You can check out the Faroe Island Sheep View to see if it is a place you want to go to. I know I do, now that I have seen it. Beats Copenhagen hands down!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P2lclIm_gtA

I was in the Faroes a couple of months ago.

It was on my bucket list for years and I finally made it. And I'm now planning a return visit.

If you want a large city with lots of attractions, choices of hotels and many tourists, go to Copenhagen. If you want a place with a handful of small hotels, easy access from Iceland, friendly people who speak English, few tourists, and beautiful scenery, choose the Faroes.

The islands are a contrast. The place is fairly rural, except for the capital, Torshavn, yet there is extensive cell phone service and wifi throughout. There are some very good restaurants serving local cuisine and hardly any chains. (Fresh fish is abundant.) The bus and ferry service is fairly extensive but you may want to rent a car to be able to stop when you want. There is basically zero crime and they are just beginning to get the concept of real tourism. At the capital's only mall, which had about 20 stores including a supermarket, I watched kids put their bikes in the bike racks and not bother to lock them.

Getting to the islands is not easy and there are only a couple of hundred hotel rooms in the capital. If you decide on the Faroes for September, I wouldn't wait too long to book it.

Two other things in regard to the link Jo posted: First, there are sheep everywhere. Second, the young lady in the video works at the Faroe Island tourist office and I remember her helping me with suggestions on things to do.

The Faroe Islands are currently in the midst of their killing season "The Grind" where they massacre pilot whales by trapping the pods and driving them into a shallow bay area and then bludgeoning them to death in the blood red water. It's beyond belief:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3173617/Fishermen-chase-250-whales-beach-Faroe-Islands-locals-leap-water-glee-stab-death-slaughter-turns-sea-red-blood.html

Personally, I could never visit this place.

Tim are you surprised that animals bleed when you kill them? You do know that meat does not start it's life on a supermarket shelf, but is a living animal that has to be killed. And if you had bothered to read the article, you would know that the whales are not bludgeoned to death, but killed with a specialized lance than severs their spinal cord, so they die as fast as possible.
The Grind may look bloody because it takes place in water, but it is really no different from any other form of hunting. The pilot whales are not endangered and the Faroese only hunt a fraction of the total population. The meat is distributed among the communities and all the parts of the animals is used. To me this seems like a much better way to get your food than the industrialized slaughter of animals that takes place in most of the western world. But the pictures are gory, so it's a great way to get uninformed people riled up on social media with half truths and hyperboile.

I think it totally depends on what you prefer. I like Copenhagen a lot but haven't been to the Faroes yet. One is a lively city with lots to see and do. The other is quiet with a slow pace of life. If your itinerary lacks one or the other, maybe that's what you need to include?

I'm similar in that I like cities for the must-sees but I prefer rural areas because it's easier to meet locals and offers a truer representation of traditional lifestyles and culture. I try to include some of both in my itineraries.

We just came back from Iceland. You will get nature aplenty in Iceland and if you want more of the same then go to the Faroes. But if you want a change of pace, go to Copenhagen.

You are right that both the Faroe Islands and Copenhagen are amazing. For this trip, though, I would choose Copenhagen. The scenery in the Faroes is spectacular but not all that different than Iceland. When we went, we paired the Faroe Islands with Copenhagen on one trip and Iceland with Paris on another to get that rural/urban/nature/museum mix.