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It has always been the case that Sunday afternoons in January were made for researching holidays. We have been considering a trip to Greenland this year, but we’ve decided that we can’t really afford to do it justice. There are…
Continue readingMore from Eyjafjallajokull As ash from Iceland’s Eyjafjallajokull volcano continued to keep European airspace shut down over the weekend, affecting millions of travelers around the world, some government agencies and airlines clashed over the flight bans. Some restricted airspace is…
Continue readingI can’t quite get my head around this one, and what I really think. My brother pointed me in the direction of this via his twitterings: a shockingly awesome shocksome music video on the @RadarMusicVideo site. It scandalised Iceland! Warning:…
Continue readingToday has been one of those days when it never really seems to get light. Waking in the halflight of morning with grey fog thick around me, it never lifts, and morning blends into afternoon, and the halflight of dusk…
Continue reading( The Land of the Midnight Sun ) The Journey North Day 1. 15 June 2004 Tuesday. A circumfluent route is taken to get to Oxford when Julian arives at my house a little after 7 o’clock. Missing the turn…
Continue readingOn today´s tour of Reykjavik – following on from the Open Air Museum, lunch in a revolving restaurant on top of four disused water towers, a tour of the bus station (for research purposes) – I have now wandered into…
Continue readingStart the week with a hot pot and a swim and finish off with three museums and a hot chocolate to die for…
Continue readingFrom one fjord to another we make our way from hot pool to tern attack to driftwood piles, and so to Breidaholt.
Continue readingand I feel fine…another superb day, but you’ll have to wait for the full story 🙂
Continue readingPaved roads behind us we drive out to the end of island … to the very west of the western fjords…
Continue readingIs it really powered in some way by hydrogen? Certainly seems to be steam rather than fumes coming from the exaust…
Continue reading…phone seems to be working. I’m connected to something called Is Tal – or Og Vodafone. Iceland looks just how I left it!
Continue readingand someone’s gonna be in trouble. The bus before this one didna stop, and he’s been spotted by da boss!
Continue readingAnd so, it’s time for me to say aurevoir, toodlepip, sees you later. My bag is packed, I think I have everything (I hope I have everything), and I’m ready for the off. Tomorrow, at approximately 1pm I will be…
Continue readingIt’s hot again today. It’s even hot in this air-con office. So I’ve taken the sensible choice, and have come to work in shorts and cork-soled, slip on sandles. There’s something very nice about sitting here, working on journals whilst…
Continue readingWednesday. ‘Welcome home to Hölar!’, we are greeted in this way by Bjäkk, our tour guide for this morning. This is the traditional welcome for all people, no matter where they come from, or where they are headed, for Hölar…
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