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Today we headed east along the 85 again, but where yesterday we stopped at the Asbyrgi canyon, today we continued around to the North, heading for Raudinupur Cape, one of Icelands most northerly points. We stopped to stretch our legs…
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Three tunnels, botanical gardens and a clear evening at a briliantly situated guest house
The coffe shop that I had high hopes for in Siglufjordur had decent coffee but not great English, and all of the pastries seemed to be variations on iced doughnut. Well customed by folk who looked like fishermen. It occurred…
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Shorter drives, longer walks to Siglufjörður
Nice quiet start at the stables this morning. Easy, as we hadn’t done a full unpack: we’re overnighting for several days now, so most of the luggage is staying in the car. (No auroras seen, last night. Significant disappointment.) The…
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Barnafoss, Hraunfossar, Hvitserkur horse stables and dirt roads
The Hraunfossar and Barnafoss are waterfalls that share a carpark, but are quite different in character. The Barnafoss are as turbulent and violent a waterfall as I’ve seen: a roiling rapids coursing through craggy rock openings. A little further down…
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Stykkishólmur and Kirkjufellsfoss
Today we drove along the northern coast of the Snæfellsnes peninsula in an easterly direction until we reached the town of Stykkishólmur, which sits at the mouth of a large fjord. It was a few degrees colder this morning, than…
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Circling the Snæfellsnes peninsula
Our second day in Iceland was to be an easy one: drive anti-clockwise around the Snæfellsnes peninsula from Olafsvik, stopping at Djúpalónssandur beach and then lunch somewhere at Arnarstapi, a small fishing village to the south, and then back to…
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Travelling to Iceland
It’s been a big day, particularly since it was two hours longer than a usual day, thanks to the change of time zone. We had a cunning plan to have breakfast at the nice bakery 100m up the road from…
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Oslo
Walked into the main part of town through the gardens of the royal palace to find breakfast coffee and baked goods. Sunny day. Very pretty town, with a lovely feel to it. I wanted to get some more SD cards…
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Leaving Svalbard
(from 24th August) Up early, to pack. Breakfast. Farewells to the crew. Carted the luggage down the dock to be ferried up to the Wildphoto gallery for storage while we went into town in search of real coffee and perhaps…
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Exploring in zodiacs
(from the 23rd) As we came into the last fjord, two polar bears had been spotted near the point. It was too late to get close then, so we left that until the morning zodiac trip. We boarded the zodiacs…