Category: Islands of the North Atlantic
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Technical works spanner
So, there I was, sitting on the veranda of the latest digs, resting after a day’s drive with a beer and my phone, looking up something on maps. Screen went blank. Powered back up, and after the “Google” sting, black again. Couple of times. Went for the recovery-mode start-up and that went straight back to…
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A glacier and several waterfalls
Too late for much here. Hopefully I’ll get back to flesh this out tomorrow. Glacier (Solheimajokull) was the dustiest that I’ve seen: the bergs in the melt pool were mostly completely black. Also possible to walk quite close to the face, which is unusual. According to the histories, the face was once right at the…
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A loop around southern parks
We had such a late start, yesterday, that we decided to have our lunch at the apartment before heading out. Of the four planned stops, the first was the Raaufarholshellir Lava Tunnels. It’s a commercial enterprise, so costs to go in. We’ve seen lava tunnels, so decided to give these a miss. Second spot was…
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First steps along the Golden Circle
Today we travelled up to the north-east of here, to Gaysir, the big geyser, from which they all get their name. Close to there is Gulfoss Falls. These are the last of the big-name falls on our Iceland tour, which is just as well, because everything after will seem feeble and insignificant. These are great,…
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Þingvellir National Park
Last Icelandic rural or wilderness visit for us on this trip. Þingvellir (that first part is pronounced “Thing”, not sure about the last part) is east and slightly north of Reykjavik. It’s a big national park, taking in a large lake and all of the space between the dropped floor of a rift valley. Arguably…
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Reykjavik
Simple day of sightseeing in the “big smoke”, such as it is here. The Cathedral (see feature photo) is much nicer, in my opinion, than the one by the same architect in Akurery. The top was visible at the top of the street our apartment was on, so we just walked straight up to it.…
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Back in Copenhagen
There aren’t any photos today because I don’t think that I took any. It’s been an odd sort of travel day. Alarms went off in Reykjavik this morning at 05:00, and we were on the road a bit later than our planned 05:30, but not by too much, and yet that was only just enough…
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Rolled-up catch-up of Copenhagen, before we go…
I’m afraid that Copenhagen is going to get short-shrift here: I just don’t seem to have found the time in the evenings to write. Hopefully these notes will help me to remember what my photos mean, when I get to look at them, and I’ll flesh this out as I find time. On our first…
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Dubrovnik
We got in to Dubrovnik around 6PM last night, after a 6AM start, which was even shakier than usual because I’d managed to food poison myself somehow, and had been up several times at night to make a mess. There are direct flights to Dubrovnik from Copenhagen, but somehow we found that we were routed…
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Another day in Dubrovnik and a ferry trip
On the 23rd, Cath and I were up and moving early enough to get to the ticket sellers entrance to the wall walk (southern gate) just after they opened, at 8AM. The idea being to avoid heavy queuing, heavy crowds and as much heat as possible. We weren’t the first, but the plan was broadly…