Borgarnes, Iceland Travel Blogs

WILL AND JUSTIN´S HITCHHIKING SCAVENGER HUNT
Aug 14, 2000 (2 photos)

... . You´re a good guy," and I didn´t want to break his heart. I arrived back in Reykjavik and hitched north to Borgarnes, a small town with very little to do. I went to the Borgarnes supermarket, the local baby hangout, and followed babies around ...

Iceland
Jul 10, 1998

Rugged and Foreboding, it's easy to sea why their forefathers were eager to travel the world.

Walking on the Ice side - Glacier style
May 20, 2007 (3 photos)

... I'd sign up for some Glacier walking on the last day of my trip here. There are several massive glaciers throughout Iceland and I found a company that took small groups of people up to the nearest one to Rekjavik called Mydrasjokull (which it turns out is ...

All the Way There; And Back Again
Sep 20, 2009 (18 photos)

This will be the last entry. I realized that it didn't sound like we DID a lot while in Iceland. Also, I realize that I have a number of good pictures left that didn't get into any of the other entries. As far as the doing goes, our package included the ...

Iceland
Apr 25, 2007

Reykjavik and Hafnarfjodur

Day 2 - enough of this city on to the hills!
May 15, 2007 (4 photos)

After the first day in Iceland, I realised just how much longer it stayed light this far north in the world. Iceland is 64 degrees north, just 2 shy of the artic circle and it stays light, and I mean with sunlight from 04am to about 1am with just 3 hours ...

My departure, north west from England
Jan 4, 2008 (1 photos)

First I fly into Iceland to catch a boat to Greenland. I am going to explore up the east coast and make my base around Scoresby Sound in the village of ittoqqortoormiit. The only village in the World with its own time zone. /Users/applemac/Pictures/ ...

Some things about Iceland...
Aug 2, 2008

A couple of interesting things about life in Iceland: Swimming pools are open all year round (some 365 days a year) because they are all heated with cheap geothermal water. Satellite dishes point into the ground (about a 70 degree angle i think) ...