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We caught our morning flight from Dublin to Iceland. It was delayed slightly but we arrived safely. We got some money at the airport and went out to get a taxi. I thought the ship was about 10 minutes away. We asked how much the taxi was and both of us converted wrong. I was thinking on 14-15 dollars. After we got in and started I realized it was $100+. We asked why and he said it was 40+ minutes away. Oops. It is going to be tight when we try to go home next week. So we took our expensive taxi ride to the boat. Check-in was a breeze. When you only have 220 passengers it just isn’t a problem. We got a nice room. It’s bigger than I thought it would be but still small. Most of the passengers are from Europe. I think I’ve only met maybe 5 Americans so far. There is a Chinese photographer on board and she is nice and has taken some wonderful pictures. The average age is probably in the late 60s or 70s and we were real surprised by that given this is an adventure tour but not all activities are hard
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mountains and I think the adventure is just going places most people don’t go. There are some definite difficult tours (shelly of course has signed up for all those) but surprisingly many other folks are on them too. Almost everyone we have talked with have taken multiple trips with this cruise line and on the same ship. They know the staff… They love the small ship and locations of the cruise line. The small ship is sooo different from the cruises we have been on before. There is no nightly entertainment, no all-day food. There are lectures about the area and what there is to do. There is a great observation lounge with huge windows and comfortable chairs. They give us killer rain/wind jackets as part of the cruise. The style of this cruise is very relaxing.
We do the dinner buffet (only choice tonight) and hit the lecture for Sunday’s stops and then head to bed.
SUNDAY
Our first port of call is Grundarfjordur. It is a small village and being it is Sunday and a holiday, nothing is open. Shelly does the hike up to multiple waterfalls and I just walk around the town. My knee
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ship is still bothering me so I try to find a pharmacy but it’s closed. I head back to the ship and go to the dr’s office. The nurse is there and I ask if I can buy some Ibuprofen and walla I can. She tells me what strength she has and I buy enough for the rest of the trip to take to keep the knees in check (or as best they can be). Shelly loved the hike and said it was a very good challenge. We leave Grundarfjordur at 2 and sail to Stykkisholmur and arrive at 4.
Shelly does the kayak tour. She was the only one with the guide but the guide said she would have cancelled if there had been more. The wind was brisk and you had to be experienced to go where they were going. Shelly saw multiple shipwrecks and even climbed up on one. I will actually do 1 or 2 kayak tours as I went to the talk about them and they give you fleece to wear, a full dry suit including glacier gloves and booties to wear. Shelly said she was warm. If you fall in, all that will freeze
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ship wreck is your face/ head. ;-)
I took the Viking Sushi tour. It was on a boat to see multiple bird habitats and then they drug along the sea floor and brought up sea urchin, scallops, star fish, crabs…. We had scallop sushi. Can’t say I’ve eaten any meat that was fresher. I had the scallop and the scallop roe too. It was great. I ended up getting 3 pieces of scallops to try. It did get rather cold on the trip back so most of us went into the belly of the boat for a cup of hot tea. Back on board we got ready for dinner(buffet again tonight) and the lecture and then back to bed.
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