Isafjördur, Iceland Travel Blogs

Where are we?!
Oct 11, 2009 (25 photos)

... light, we took in the stunning Dynjandi waterfall, and a harrowing and icy drive through the mountains put us at last in Isafjördur, where we had a lovely dinner and met some men from Reykjavik who absolutely would not believe that we were here on vacation. ...

Westfjords in Iceland
Sep 17, 2007 (8 photos)

Great place in Iceland to visit ,is the Westfjords. There are many interesting and beutiful places to visit and see. This is the most western part of Europe

And it gets better
Apr 18, 2008 (5 photos)

... in the cockpit for appetizer.  Salmon for dinner.  It was a delightful ending to a great! day. My bag arrived in Isafjordur last night, 72 hours behind schedule.  It would have been much nicer to have clean socks to put on each day.

First full day of skiing
Apr 16, 2008 (2 photos)

A long day skiing today (5 hours), so about 4 hours going up, maybe 30 minutes downhill.  My skis seem to be particularly heavy due to their size/width and binding system.  Very windy up high, although the air isn't too cold the windchill is ...

Day 3 and the weather improves
Apr 17, 2008 (4 photos)

Excellent day today.  Sunny and warm (around 45 degrees) with little wind.  We did ~1250m today on top of 1100+ yesterday.  Some great terrain and snow even though it was quite soft.   I'm feeling great other than some minor ...

More great skiing
Apr 19, 2008 (5 photos)

I was another great day.  Blue sky, warm, very little wind.  We did about 1000m, crossing one fjord into another then hiking up a nice face and skiing back down. Mostly the skiing is of moderate steepness, but the second slopes today and ...

iceland II: hitchhiking is cool
Jul 25, 2008

... : buses to Tranchenberg only run on odd days and I had only one, even day left in Isafjördur. Well guess what, the suggestion on my guidebook that iceland is hitchhikable was confirmed by the local tourist information office. And off I go, standing at the ...

Back to civilization
Apr 20, 2008 (3 photos)

I skipped the early morning ski trip today due to a number of factors--sore feet, knee, socks, etc., but the group did 750m before 11am--quite a feat! We motored back in about 4 hours under sunny skies and a light headwind.  One comes to take the ...

Preparing to embark
Apr 14, 2008 (2 photos)

The transfer to Isafjordur was uneventful, which suited me just fine.  As it turns out, although most (all?) Icelanders speak English, they seem to only use Icelandic among themselves or when they expect only Icelanders to be present.  This meant ...

Cologne Germany
Oct 11, 2007 (21 photos)

Við Eyrún fórum til Kölnar á Herbalife Extravaganza, það var frábær ferð og virkilega gaman að skoða Köln.  Við flugum til Frankfurt með Iceland Air og vorum þar í eina nótt. Tókum síðan lest til Kölnar sem fór í gegnum Rínardalinn og var það frábært að skoða hann. Þ ...

Day 1 complete
Apr 15, 2008 (4 photos)

Everything came together well.  After spending ~$500 at the local outfitter, I have a minimal set of gear.  Runar has loaned me pants and a sleeping bag. We skiied one run, about 1 1/2 hours up (to 500m) and 15 minutes down.  Nice ...

July 12th and 13th, at sea
Jul 12, 2008

... maybe four times.  She might put the number lower.  Well, in the Straights of Denmark, North Atlantic, between Greenland and Iceland, she kicked my asiago (cheese, that we got from the Lido.)  I won't complain that at one point, I had only ...

Isafjordur
Jul 14, 2008

... .  I opened one eye and promptly went back to sleep.  Teresa got up fairly early and watched us pull into Isafjordur, Iceland.  Regrettably, the rain has followed us since we left St. Anthony Newfoundland.  In fact, it has been a week ...

Ísafjörður und þingeyri
Aug 17, 2009 (12 photos)

hier ein paar bilder von ísafjörður. mehr oder weniger die hauptstadt von den westfjörden, gerade mal 3000 Mann stark. zweimal pro woche wird die stadt von uns angefahren um einkäufe zu erledigen oder für freizeitbeschäftigungen wie kino oder biertrinkerei. ...