Category Archives: Iceland

A last minute trip to Reykjavik for a long weekend

Results of the Iceland Investigation

Thu, 22 February, 2007 – 12:25 AM MST

After coming back from four days in Iceland I have been reflecting and created my good and bad list.
Fraught and Freezing
The price of stuff
Things are Expensive!! Sales tax is 25% and it cost and extra 15% or so to ship most things into the country. Add the countries historical inflation issues and you [...]

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Last Day in Iceland

Mon, 19 February, 2007 – 11:40 PM MST

Last night we went to the Reykjavik Ice bar, which was basically a refrigeration unit. But it was gimmicky enough to be interesting. After our drinks Susan’s fingers were starting to go numb so we decided to get outside and warm up
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Susan had been harassing the receptionist in our hotel each night about [...]

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Golden Circle Wilderness

Mon, 19 February, 2007 – 11:37 PM MST

Today we took a golden circle bus tour into the largest wilderness in Europe. We started at Pringvellir National park where rift caused the American and European tectonic plates separating has caused a large valley to form. It’s also where the Vikings established the worlds first democratic parliament. At the lookout Susan was almost blown [...]

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Puffin and Hot Pools

Sun, 18 February, 2007 – 10:50 PM MST

Waking up this morning was a little difficult after last nights hunt for the northern lights. We decided to take things a little easy and opted to take the local bus to a small town called Hafnarfjordur for the afternoon. After walking around the small fishing town we son realised this town was mega sleepy [...]

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Darkness but no lights

Sun, 18 February, 2007 – 7:15 PM MST

We are in Iceland at one of the best times of year to see the aurora borealis. However the two key ingredients for a successful northern light viewing are:
Good Weather
Crisp clear sky is a bit of a must. So if you can see clouds you probably cant see the green flickering goodness.
Darkness
It pays to be [...]

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Sleeping while sitting up the way to Iceland

Sat, 17 February, 2007 – 7:14 PM MST

Friday we had a smooth bus ride in to Heathrow from Bristol. An American girl was sitting behind us on her way to New Zealand. Isn’t amazing how almost all American’s are infected with verbal diarorea and insist on talking even if there is nothing to say. Maybe it was just tiredness from work but [...]

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