It's well worth visiting Tinganes – the location of one of the oldest parliaments in the world. With its "bright red walls" and "turf-green roof", "it looks a bit like the House of Commons ...

The 50,000 Faroese are fiercely proud of their independence - and eccentricity. Both are on show in Tinganes, where the Faroe Islands government conducts its business from a handful of timber ...