This day we did the least tourist things but by far the most driving. We started to head north through the Eastern fjords but the weather turned bad so it was very slow progress through this area. A very large fog came and made visibility pretty much nonexistent so it was very slow progress for the day. We were lucky enough to get some sun at times though and the views were amazing of the mountains along the coast road. The East is very much of the tourist trail with hardly any traffic at all for most of the time and if only the sun was out it would have been a perfect drive but we have been lucky enough for the other days. Most people choose to skip the Eastern fjords and do the Western ... read more

After waking up in the middle of know where once again we headed to the waterfall Skogafoss which was 5 minutes away. Another massive wall of water thundering to the ground and this is the second most famous in Iceland. After a hike up to the top of this we hit the road for two hours heading to the massive glacier of Vatnajökull which takes up 8% of the whole country, biggest in Europe. We managed to do a hike here and planned our glacier hike for the next day. It will be our first touristy paid thing to do in Iceland but we are of course unable to do that by ourselves so a tour it is but can be a once in a life time chance really. The hike we done was for only ... read more

What a great day we had to start the outdoors of Iceland! We were up early and into the city to pick up a fellow CS’er who had agreed to join us on our trip for the first few days. We headed out and our first stop was Geysir (the blow hole) and we did get a surprise here. With all the other tourists we were very excited to see it in full action and waited then a little puff of water came up no more the five meters high. We were thinking at this stage ‘this is not that exciting’ then we were walking around and a massive gush of water went flying up around 30-40 meters in the air and this was impressive. The water flys up every 5-6 minutes and the crowd is ... read more

To experience Sweden in summer is amazing, long and sunny nights, green and calm landscape which can turn to gray and stormy days. People mood changes with the weather and big crowds of people to the parks on a sunny day. The summer in Scandinavia is really short. This summer was extremely long and warm for Swedish people (2 months with sun and +25-30 degrees every day) and everyone is really happy about it. Usually, a summer here used to be just few weeks. For some people this summer is really hard because they are not used to this wonderful weather. They are complaining on warm summer and on cold winters. However, we loved this amazing summer weather. Chris stayed in Sweden while Diana was working in Oslo. Well, Chris loved to experience his new country ... read more

After a difficult time getting visas organized we headed into Belarus for five nights. Diana has a good friend living their also so we planned three nights in Minsk before going to visit Ilona and her family in the country side. First, border security takes around two hours to pass by the time they check everything and it is a good sign of the things to come. You will see military presence all over the city in Minsk and can be said that the people are afraid to do anything wrong since ‘they are been watch’ all the time. This can be noticed with the large antenna looking thing above a building that was a gift from Russia that is able to listen into phone calls. Whilst on the government, Diana had a nice little incident ... read more