Blogs from Iceland, Europe - page 22

Slept most of the night. I must have been tired! I have no idea what day it is... I'm staying at the Holiday Inn Ariel near Heathrow and the room comes with breakfast. I was hungry so wandered down at 6:30... and had hot English vegetarian breakfast. I didn't take a photo so you'll have to imagine eggs, tomatoes, mushrooms with toast and tea. All very nice. Checkout time was 12:00 so I went back to bed and slept for another couple of hours. Nuggie and Theo's flight was supposed to arrive at 12:30 so I caught the bus and arrived at Terminal 3. To get to Terminal 4, I had to catch the underground train. Their flight had already landed but with the queues of yesterday, I knew they were going to be a while. ... read more

Wow! What a day! We got ourselves organised and into the breakfast room nice and early. The food was a little different, typical Scandinavian fare with the slices of meat and cheese and hard boiled eggs, with ryvita type crispbreads. We noticed in Sweden too that their hard boiled eggs always have whiter than white shells. The scrambled eggs were more like chopped up omelette. The pork sausages were nice. I tried their version of hash browns and they were nicer than what we usually have. After brekky we got ourselves organised and went out to the foyer to wait for our tour bus. We got talking to a German couple in the foyer. The lady had shown me how to operate the orange juice machine at breakfast. They were amazed to meet us - they’d ... read more

Well, after a restless night on a perfectly stable ship (I liked the rocking ok?) we went to brekky to find it was a wet and windy day here in Reykjavik. After brekky Tom went ashore to find a post office and I went upstairs to take some pics. It was cold as well as wet and windy so I came back inside to the panorama lounge to have a warming coffee and read some more of my Marian Keyes book. I noticed another lady getting an interesting looking drink in a smaller sized champagne glass - it was a Baileys!! I thought yes, it’s after 10 (just) i’ll have one too! When Tom returned all cold and damp from his outing ashore, a Baileys warmed him up nicely too while we were reading. We had ... read more

Ce sera notre dernière journée tous ensemble... Nous explorons aujourd'hui la région fertile de Borgarfjördur avec ses cascades pittoresques de Hraufossar et Barnafoss : il n'y a pas de court d'eau en amont de la cascade. L'eau surgit directement de la terre. Elle coule en petits filets sous les champ de lave au nord de larivière qui a depuis été recouvert par la végétation avant de tomber dans la Hvita en formant des remous aux teintes turquoises. Lisez donc le panneau comme nous l'avons fait afin d'en apprendre plus encore... Puis la source d'eau chaude de Deildartunguhver, source la plus abondante en eau géothermique d'Europe.... C'est amusant car cette source d'eau chaude me rappelle mon enfance au Congo... Le dimanche il nous arrivait de partir pour la journée et dans les eaux chaudes nous cuisions nos ... read more

Cette nuit non prévue à l'hôtel KEA d'Akureyri nous a fait du bien à tous... Après un bon dîner tout à côté de l'hôtel où chacun s'offrait le plat de son choix, les amitiés se sont encore forgées un peu plus... on commence à sentir que la fin du voyage approche et on pense tout doucement à s'échanger les adresses mails.... Aujourd'hui nous commencerons tout doucement à nous diriger vers l'Est puis redescendre direction Rykjavik mais heureusement il y a encore pas mal de belles choses à faire avant d'y arriver. Nous traverserons des terres agricoles, des rivières glaciaires et un fjord scénique. Mais avant tout cela Andris nous fait visiter le jardin botanique d'Akureyri. C'est le jardin botanique situé le plus au Nord au monde ! Il est temps de parler de la deuxième plus ... read more