http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Iceland/East/ Travel adventures in journals and photos from Europe , Iceland , East en-us Tue, 08 Dec 09 08:25:36 +0000 Tue, 08 Dec 09 08:25:36 +0000 Mon 72808 Besides having read about the Arctic in books and having seen the glossy photos in magazines I had never really given much thought to what lay north of me. I live on Lake Erie and so ldquonorthrdquo is zebra mussels and mapleleaved flags. When mum sent me the scholarship application I filled it out on a whim. It would be wonderful to travel and as an aspiring biologist and http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Iceland/East/blog-420124.html Iceland is fantastic The weather has been great the sights amazing and all is well with the World. Access to computers has been challenging however everyone has their ownTo be honest Ive really enjoyed being disconnected from my website email facebook twitter youtube et al.Ive decided today to not bother with blogging for this trip. Im going old school pen and paper camera for lat http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Iceland/East/blog-414784.html With the sun out and a warm breeze we had a walk round the landscape around the hostel. Kasia was feeling a bit under the weather from some pesky cold so we kept it fairly short. We set off north inland now over the pass deeper into Eastern Iceland. Up a gravel road and on a steep bend Rosa unexpectedly came face to face with a bus and became detached from her motorcycle. Unfortunately that was http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Iceland/East/blog-327138.html