Edda Plus Akureyri
Hrafnagilstrati Akureyri, 600, Iceland
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Akureyri rhymes with Tipperary, doesn't it?
Upon closer scrutiny of my itinerary last night, I was dismayed to realize that my tour company, "Discover the World", had booked me far from Skaftafell National Park, and the Glacial Lagoon Jokulsarlon made famous in the Amazing Race. This would not do...so after breakfast this morning, Inga, my Icelandic angel at the Hotel Edda's front desk, …
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... more prosaically believe this to be caused by a jökulhlaup, a sudden onrush of meltwater from the Vatnajokull which may be released by volcanic heating or just a collapse of an ice-dam. Further up the valley the river passes through a gorge where basalt has been twisted, its usually vertical columns lying horizontally, as if Thor has thrown a paddy with his hammer; while lava plugs that solidified in the vent of volcanoes remained strong as all around them washed ...
Goða helgi
... Christmas pigs, which I think come from Denmark or Norway.
Finally we went to Ragney's sister's house to have dinner. Her sister, Jónína, lives on a cattle farm. When we went to her house for dinner last Sunday, we talked about why I don't eat beef, and she asked if I might be interested in trying beef from their cattle, since I knew where it came from and how it was raised. I decided it might be interesting, so this week I tried a little bit ...
De tocht door het Noorden: deel 2
... waar we zin in hebben. Al met al weer een leuke dag gehad.
Woensdag 8 juni: Vannacht alweer een nachtvorst overleefd maar helaas was er een ander probleem dat ons meer zorgen baarde. Toen we gisterenavond nog even de kachel wilde aanzetten klapte de 12 Volt er uit. Als je in een camper geen 12 Volt hebt heb je geen verlichting (hier niet zo’n probleem want het is 24 uur per dag licht), maar ook geen water, geen toiletspoeling en kun je ook de verwarming niet ...
Midget lake
... weren't many around as the worst time is in June. Around the edge of the that
side of the lake there were lots of pseudo craters. Which are formations which
look like craters but aren't.
Our next visit was
to a lava field which was full of oddly shaped rock. We walked through on a
path which was unfortunately very steep and rocky so for once Jen had to have
help to push. Everyone was very kind so we managed to ...



