Blogs from Southwest, Iceland, Europe - page 64

Oh, but my cells are churning. Why, only yesterday I made the very tough decision to sell almost all my CD's (bar a few with special memories attached, and those personally autographed. Ok, the one personally autographed CD I have), for a shockingly low price. Today the plan is to weed through the ceaseless flood of books currently inhabiting my bedroom, hallway and storage areas, and maybe try to unload a few of those as well. It's amazing how much stuff one can gather over the course of 22 years. But, hopefully all this will bring me one step closer to Destination: Europe. For the benefit of you, dearest reader, I shall now outline the plan (if it can be called a plan at this early stage). Mostly I'm the one doing the planning, and my ... read more

Well today was the last vaccination shot (although we have one left in June). We've also drunk the cholera "potion"....did not like it....I'm kindof squeamish so you had to fight keeping it down...it was not so much the taste, rather the texture. Anyway, only two weeks till l leave my little island. Amazing how time flies. I remember me and Guðrún starting this trip a year ago and thinking:" This is so far away that it's probably never going to happen". But like always time goes so fast by that you almost don't have enough time...or start plannig a bit to late (like in school). Yes, we could use more time planning things but we'll just play it by ear I guess. _____________________________________________________________ Jæja, þá er síðast sprautan búin, eða í bili. Eigum eftir eina sprautu ... read more

The three of us have been living together for the past 4 months but moved last weekend. It's been strange not seeing Gudrún everyday....but after 3 weeks we'll be breathing down each others necks all the time so....... We met yesterday to book the rest of the flights. It didn't go very well at first. Spent a lot of time trying to book flights on sites that didn't seem to know that Iceland exists. We even tried booking under nationalities like Greenlanders and Danish....funny... After a lot of frustration and pulling our hairs out we finally succeeded in booking at least some of the flights. I strongly recommend dohop.com. If you're from Iceland don't even try to use Kayak.com....that was a waste of time...but Kayak.co.uk was successful in some cases. So now we just need to ... read more

BWI-Reykjavik: flight time 5 hours, 15 minutes Months back, the plan was to fly into Iceland and have a 9-hour layover. Scott felt it would give us the opportunity to leave the airport and see something of Reykjavik before we continued our trek east. This plan was changed after a frank discussion was had that highlighted Kat's preference for not making a long and complicated travel itinerary any longer or complicated than it needed to be. We had rearranged things so as to have a 2-hour layover. Of course, this was before we had a 5-hour delay coming out of BWI. Our entire stay in Iceland involved getting off our plane, commenting on the lovely glass-walled jetways, walking across the hallway, and entering another glass-walled jetway. While we had been flying, it had been announced that ... read more

weee we moved on wednesday to reykjavik at last! some pics from pigvellir national park are up, also some pics of the lights from reykjavik on thursday! not long til christmas and coming home! woo!±!... read more