Blogs from Southwest, Iceland, Europe - page 8

I caught the bus into the big bus stop (the nice taxi man gave me several tickets to use), unloaded my very heavy bag into a locker and walked into the city. It took me about 15 minutes, past ponds with lots of ducks, swans and gulls. People were out feeding them. There was a mother swam with 4 babies that were as big as her. You could only tell because they were still a little bit grey in colour... big babies! It was really cold. The wind here in Iceland is almost relentless just different speeds of relentless. I walked to the end of the city to the convention centre which was at least lovely and warm and then wandered back into the main street where the most remarkable and scary lighted cat awaits. I ... read more

Wow! What a day! We got ourselves organised and into the breakfast room nice and early. The food was a little different, typical Scandinavian fare with the slices of meat and cheese and hard boiled eggs, with ryvita type crispbreads. We noticed in Sweden too that their hard boiled eggs always have whiter than white shells. The scrambled eggs were more like chopped up omelette. The pork sausages were nice. I tried their version of hash browns and they were nicer than what we usually have. After brekky we got ourselves organised and went out to the foyer to wait for our tour bus. We got talking to a German couple in the foyer. The lady had shown me how to operate the orange juice machine at breakfast. They were amazed to meet us - they’d ... read more

Well, after a restless night on a perfectly stable ship (I liked the rocking ok?) we went to brekky to find it was a wet and windy day here in Reykjavik. After brekky Tom went ashore to find a post office and I went upstairs to take some pics. It was cold as well as wet and windy so I came back inside to the panorama lounge to have a warming coffee and read some more of my Marian Keyes book. I noticed another lady getting an interesting looking drink in a smaller sized champagne glass - it was a Baileys!! I thought yes, it’s after 10 (just) i’ll have one too! When Tom returned all cold and damp from his outing ashore, a Baileys warmed him up nicely too while we were reading. We had ... read more

Ce sera notre dernière journée tous ensemble... Nous explorons aujourd'hui la région fertile de Borgarfjördur avec ses cascades pittoresques de Hraufossar et Barnafoss : il n'y a pas de court d'eau en amont de la cascade. L'eau surgit directement de la terre. Elle coule en petits filets sous les champ de lave au nord de larivière qui a depuis été recouvert par la végétation avant de tomber dans la Hvita en formant des remous aux teintes turquoises. Lisez donc le panneau comme nous l'avons fait afin d'en apprendre plus encore... Puis la source d'eau chaude de Deildartunguhver, source la plus abondante en eau géothermique d'Europe.... C'est amusant car cette source d'eau chaude me rappelle mon enfance au Congo... Le dimanche il nous arrivait de partir pour la journée et dans les eaux chaudes nous cuisions nos ... read more

La journée continue autant sur de belles routes que de beaux arrêts ! Mais tout d'abord UN TOUT GRAND MERCI à tous ceux qui ce matin déjà m'ont souhaité un joyeux anniversaire !!!! La chute de Gullddoss est un de nos prochains arrêts après en avoir eu plein les yeux au Geysir ! Nous aurons un premier hôtel sympa où nous aurions pu entrer dans des serres, mais malheureusement c'était déjà l'heure de fermeture. Pour ceux que cela intéresse, au point de vue hôtelier ici il y a encore beaucoup à faire... Nous avons passé les deux premières nuits au Radisson Blue Saga a Reykjavik, dans le quartier universitaire. Un Radisson qui est en pleine rénovation... Pourquoi ne pas fermer un hôtel quand on y fait tant de travaux ???? La chambre est vieillote mais heureusement ... read more