Blogs from Southwest, Iceland, Europe - page 42

We spent about an hour in the Iceland Airport. Brief though the stop was, Bagelmonkeys made the following conclusions: - Iceland looks incredible. I was not in my usual window seat on the plane, so observations were made from afar but the landscape looked black and barren from the sky and then green and lush from the ground. Crazy mind trick! - The air was crisp and clean. After being in a stuffy airplane with head colds for 6.5 hours, we were happy to have such nice air to breathe. It must be a non-smoking airport. - Stopping in Reykjavik is the best midway point! We will have to do it again. - We did not see any of their volcanoes, active or otherwise, from the sky due to the morning cloud cover. - Bjork, though ... read more

Wow. It feels like forever since I've updated this blog, but that's reality when you're on the road often. There's so many great things to share, but I feel like I have a great "comeback" blog entry. This summer, I took a week long trip to Iceland, London, and Dublin which was fantastic. Now, all these places I've mentioned aren't known for the most exotic food, but Iceland by far is known for some pretty, I'll say, "out there" eats. Of course, everyone asks me what I tried and where I ate, but the one thing that kept coming up was my experience with one of Iceland's national dishes - the dreaded hakarl. Warning - this blog article might make you sick to your stomach. No matter where I go, I always want to sample the ... read more

The Blue Lagoon is Iceland's most visited attraction, located in Grindavik, it attracts thousands upon thousands of tourists to Iceland each year. The meet-up was scheduled to take place at ten past ten past ten. But after a long Saturday night, the group was unable to get together until after 12:00 noon. Hrafn the Icelander was kind enough to pick us from our hotel (the Radisson Blu Saga) for the half hour drive to the Blue Lagoon. I must commend him because, he had stayed up till 5:00 am from the night before. We were 5 altogether, including my husband Mark, myself, Sarah, Julie and Hrafn. Now this was not part of our Golden Circle Tour, we did this independently as it was convenient to do so in preparation for the Arctic Travbuddy Meet-up. The Blue ... read more

We have arrived in Iceland after maybe one of the worst flights we have ever had, the turbulence was terrible over Sweden and Norway with the plane jumping around but we made it safe and sound to rainy Reykjavik. We were a little surprised by how little to do in the city there is, just seems a place to stay a night or two before heading out into the country. We were greeted by our wonderful hosts on arrival into the city who told us all about the country and the economy crash that happened here which is still a fairly hot topic. For the afternoon of our arrival we did not get up to much really and I guess we visited most of the places of interest in the capital. The next day we were ... read more

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