Eastern Promise: The Great Forest and fixing a motorbike with bamboo sticks
September 24th 2008 With the sun out and a warm breeze we had a walk round the landscape around the hostel. Kasia was feeling a bit under the weather from some pesky cold so we kept it fairly short.
We set off north, inland now over the pass deeper into Eastern Iceland. Up a gravel road (and on a steep bend) Rosa unexpectedly came face to face with a bus and became detached from her motorcycle. Unfortunately that w
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Settled by Norwegian and Celtic (Scottish and Irish) immigrants during the late 9th and 10th centuries A.D., Iceland boasts the world's oldest functioning legislative assembly, the Althing, established in 930. Independent for over 300 years, Iceland ... ... read more 
