Blogs from North, Iceland, Europe - page 5

Que de merveilles... et tant à vous montrer encore... Pour ceux qui s'en soucient, oui nous ne sommes plus là-bas, mais bien de retour à la maison... Après l'Islande nous avons été au Canada, visite familiale côté Montréal, mais aussi un peu d'Ontario... C'est une autre histoire qui prendra place dans la chronologie du blog... Retournons donc à nos moutons puisque c'est d'actualité dans ces paysages et que nous rencontrons encore de magnifiques endroits... Après les 390 km d'hier nous quittons Eglisstadir pour dormir ce soir à Akureyri... Pour que vous vous y retrouviez un peu dans notre géographie, je vous mets une carte que j'ai flêchée afin de vous situer le tour que nous avons fait jusqu'à Eglisstadir aujourd'hui et Akureyri pour ce soir. Nous passons par un haut-plateau désertique avec la cascade la plus ... read more

We have reached the half way point of our trip around Iceland. The odometer is about to tick over to half of our allocated distance and we are 10 days in to a 20 day trip. So far, so good. In this post we will cover some of waterfalls and lakes in this central part of the North, talk a little about camping Iceland style and outline our planning for the next leg of the trip into the Highlands. We have previously camped in Europe for extended periods and have noted that they do it differently here. Well serviced camp sites that can handle, say 100 people, have 4 toilets and 2 showers but we have been in a few that have had closer to 900 people that don't have too many more. People seem to ... read more

I’m up early again, working on the blog ahead of the alarm that we’ve set. Things aren’t looking all that good outside, and I think that we are both concerned about being able to get into the harbor for tendering today. We head up to the Lido and grab our typical “Tour Day” breakfast. After four weeks on board the Rotterdam we seem to be hitting our stride. Maybe a 2020 World Tour isn’t such a far-fetched idea after all. The fog horn blared. As we eat pool side we begin to notice some small breaks in the fog, and then some daylight above, and before we were done eating we could see Akureyri, and we had arrived. There were a ton of people waiting to go on the “Jewels of Iceland” tour. Probably many tons ... read more

This morning we were still at sea in our way to Grímsey Island so I went to La Terrazza for the buffet breakfast. After breakfast I headed to the mud room to collect my boots as they needed to be returned this morning. This means we will no longer have any wet landings. We arrived at Grímsey Island at 11:30am. Grímsey is the northernmost inhabited Icelandic territory. It is a tiny, charming island which is approximately 5km in size. Grímsey is a popular destination as the Arctic Circle crosses through it, so today we have sailed from the Arctic Circle and crossed the line but will have the opportunity to then walk back over the Arctic Circle on this island! After a light lunch on board (trying to cut down!) we were scheduled to head ashore ... read more

Ze zakladniho tabora jsme podnikli utok na jezero myVatn. To uz jsme sice videli, ale shledali jsme, ze je potrebne ho zkontrolovat podrobneji. Abych to zkratil, jezero stoji za zlamanou gresli. Nekde u Trebone najdete hezci. Mozna na nem teda budou jine kachny (jako jine druhy, u konkrernich jedincu je to skoro jiste, i kdyz co ja vim o planech na dovolenou mistnich ptaku, takze vyloucit se to neda). Ale okolo jezera je nekolik mist, ktere za navstevu stoji. Nejprve jsme zastavili u pseudokrateru Skútustaðagígar. A ty teda za navstevu nestoji. Ze zeme, kde se predpokladam bude vetsina z vas pohybovat, to jsou totiz takove male zelene kopecky. Az ze vzduchu (kam se vetsina z vas asi nedostane) to cele vynikne. Takze se pred navstevou nejprve podivejte v mistnim obchudku na pohlednici, kde to celkem dobre ... read more