Blogs from Vík, South, Iceland, Europe - page 5

This was the last day of our South Ring road trip. We were up and ready for breakfast by 8 am as we had another long day of traveling ahead of us back to Reykjavik. Stephan was an excellent guide and we were looking forward to hearing more Icelandic stories. Or so we thought. Let’s just say that by the end of the day it seemed like he was reaching for things to say and his so called sagas were dragging on and were not that interesting. We first started out going back to Glacier Lagoon. If it wasn’t too cold or if the weather was nice we were going to take a trip on the boat through the lagoon. How funny is that, if the weather is nice; what we were thinking? We are in ... read more

Hola de nuevo a todos, tras nuestra experiencia asiatica aqui estamos en este impresionante pais. Todo empezo con el viaje a Alicante desde donde salio nuestro vuelo y tras llegar a las 5 de la mañana a Keflavick, montamos las bicis y sin mas dilacion emepzamos nuestro camino, primer dia, 62 Km a Reyckyavick...duro por la falta de sueño pero empezamos a atisvar la belleza del pais. Tras dormir en un camping nos fuimos a Laugarvatan tras pasar por Pingevellier, 72 km de ruta y un dia increible en el que vimos la falla que separa la placa norteamericana de la euroasiatica, el primer parlamento del mundo (1100 años ni mas ni menos) y dormimos en un hostal de lujo y nos dimos unos bañitos termales en un spa a la vera de un lago increible. ... read more

Le 12 mai Le réveil sonne à 8:00. Le lever est pénible, au Canada il est 4:00am, beaucoup trop matinal pour moi. On s'habille puis on file à la boulangerie et à la station-service pour acheter quelques provisions. Naturellement, l'épicerie Bonus est encore fermée, décidément, nous n'avons pas de chance. À la station-service, on s'achète des sandwichs, jus, muffins et Skyr pour composer notre dîner. On fait ensuite une razzia à la boulangerie: pain au fromage, fromage, gâteau au chocolat, etc. Ça rattrape plutôt bien nos repas moches d'hier. Avant de partir, on vérifie notre habillement. Aujourd'hui, ça doit être de type sèche-vite car la première attraction de la journée est une chute derrière laquelle on peut marcher, de quoi prendre une bonne douche! Carl choisit pour l'occasion de mettre ses shorts... Contrairement au bon sens ... read more

10:00PM As predicted, the ducks turned up around 9.30 looking for food, and the world appeared to be heading back to normality after the storm (talking to various people since, these storms happen a couple of times a year, though not with quite the same ferocity). Not long after the ducks had waddled back to the pond, we were on the road. The landscape had completely changed from a couple of days before, the wind and rain wiping out the snow and ice that had covered the ground for miles around, showing the miles and miles of lava fields that had been sitting beneath. The whole area had been farming land until 1783, when the nearby volcano Laki erupted in catastrophic fashion, destroying the whole area, killing up to 25% of the population and 80% of ... read more

8:20 PM Whenever we have been off on trips to foreign parts in the past, we have always made the best use of the public transport available, mainly, across Europe, the formerly bargainous Inter Rail tickets which enable us to jump on a train anywhere in Europe and jump off anywhere we want (I say formerly bargainous because the price shoots up once you hit the age of 26, and the collapse of Sterling against the Euro in the last 12 months has now made it doubly expensive). The problem with Iceland is that there aren’t any trains; the landscape doesn’t make building them particularly easy or cheap, and given the population of the island outside of Reykjavik, it almost doesn’t seem worth the effort. The lack of trains meant that if we wanted to go ... read more