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Published: June 22nd 2008
It´s been a while since I updated. No, I haven´t forgotten about this, but unfortunately good internet service is proving hard to come by outside of a wireless connection here in Iceland. And I don´t have a laptop. It´s expensive in most places, and the cheap ones don´t like to let me do anything other than email. Even where I am now I still can´t upload photos, so this is going to have to be a bland text-only post again.
Oh well, sometime I´ll get them up there.
So, since last time I posted, let´s see...
I slept about 14 hours that first night, which seemed to get me over the jet lag fairly well. Walked up a mountain near Reykjavik the next day (Wednesday), and got some good views of the city and surrounding area. Thursday I did some shopping, visited a couple meuseums that I had been too tired to appreciate previously, and then caught a bus out of town on the start of my round-island journey.
Hopped off that night after an hour or so in Borgarnes, and slept in a campground right near the ocean. Picked up the bus again the next day and went straight up to Akureyri, the 2nd most populous city in Iceland outside the capital area with a population of about 20,000. It was tough having to miss a couple of the big peninsulas and associated sights in the west, but time is limited and I can´t do everything, unfortunately.
Saturday I hiked up a popular peak just west of Akureyri. It was a great viewpoint. There is still a decent amount of snow visible on higher peaks nearby, and the massive ice caps were visible far to the south. It looked like it was going to rain for the first time on my trip, but luckily the clouds held off and I stayed dry.
Today, Sunday, I took the bus to Godafoss, a large-ish waterfall east of Akureyri. Very impressive, even though it´s far shorter than many other waterfalls around the country! From there I came to Myvatn, one of the island´s biggest lakes, where I´m staying tonight (and probably tomorrow). This area is in a more tectonically and volcanically active part of the country, and there are a bunch of really cool lava formations and fissures nearby. Really wish I could upload photos!
Overall it´s been pretty exciting so far. I haven´t yet found any good cookies (hoping for some fresh-baked in a bakery sometime), but I have wandered around with my sunglasses on at 1:00am!
I´d keep writing, but my time is running out... and I don´t want to spend another $5 for 30 more minutes if they won´t let me upload photos.
´til next time!
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Alessandro
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How exciting!
It sounds like your up to a great start. Kinda lame about the internets there, but j00 kan dew iht! Find a good one. :3 Sunglasses at 1am, huh? Reminds me of when I was in Russia. White nights, which is around now-ish, means we had only about 1 hour of darkness each night. It's crazy, but definitely interesting.