Foss Reykholt

Today was my day to try scuba diving in Iceland. Yesterday was the first time it occurred to me that I would be diving in a lake. This morning my husband and I couldn't decide what order to layer my clothes, swimsuit-scuba skin-long underwear OR swimsuit-long underwear-scuba skin. Finally I just put regular clothes over my swimsuit and carried everything else with me.

My dive master picked me up promptly and then we picked up Amanda and Pete from Alberta, Canada. They had played the ...

Our final stop on today's tour was to go to the place where the North American plate and Eurasian plate are moving apart at 2 ¼ centimeters a year. Our guide said that Iceland was getting closer to North American every year and further away from Europe but how can that be if the plates are moving apart. It would seem that Iceland is growing by 2 ¼ centimeters a year and is getting closer to both continents by that ...

So today i went on an excursion spending another day as a tourist i went to see the geysirs and the HUGE waterfall, and a volcanic crater....niiiiiice all on me lil ownsum tho....very un-cool, being trapsed around the country....on what felt like a couples day! funfun! lol but it was good to get out the city n se what rural iceland is really like and its very ...

My European summer started with a three hour delay at Logan Airport, after we had all boarded the plane, on time, we were told there was a technical problem and would have to get off the plane and wait for them to fix it. They said it would only take an hour, but it took three, they said no one would miss there connecting flights, but pretty much everyone did, except me. My eight hour lay over in ...

My first day in Iceland went quite unexpected. It was a long travelling day, leaving home at 7 in the morning and pitching my tent on Reykjavik's camping ground well after 5pm local time. I went for a stroll in the city, did some sightseeing and had a meal at A Naestu Grosum (the place-to-be for vegetarians). By 8pm I was dead-tired and all I could think of was sleeping. I had totally no intention to participate in the "runtur", the ...

A day of relaxation today, I was collected from my hotel at 1030 and off to the Blue lagoon. What a fantastic time I had, chilling in the hot water - it is not any good for your hair though - my hair is very dry now. But sooo relaxing, you can float on your back and just drift with the clouds above you. Thankfully it was a clear day so not alot of clouds and a very blue sky. I also treated myself to a massage - 30 mins for 3600 ...

Well what a disappointment this morning, I had checked in and ready to go yet - we did not go anywhere! There was bad fog in Kulucuk - Greenland, where we were flying to so the day trip was cancelled at 1100, we were due to fly at 1010. Not a happy bunny. At least I will get a refund, so a cheaper break than I thought! So back to my hotel and off with the thermals. I decided to go to a small ...

Etter noen dager i Reykjavik tok vi med oss en bil fra Hertz og dro ut på tur. Kjørte til Geysir, Gullfoss, Pinvellir og opp til Reykholt (hvor Snorre Strularsons badestamp befinner seg)... Island er skikkelig kult! Kommer masse varmt vann opp overalt...og røyk og snodige lukter :-) Geysir var helt fantastisk, det samme var Gullfoss! Gullfoss dannes av at Hvita (White River) dropper 32 meter ned i et juv...helt utrolig! Vi fulgte vei 55 fre ...

The sun is shining and it gives me hope. I get on the bike and start a fresh climb. The sun makes it a lot easier. I reach waterfall Glymur in no time. I don't give myself the time for a visit, it is a walk of two and a half-hour and I really want to reach the campsite on time. The road keeps on going over hills but this time I manage to reach ...

... But when our ride together ended and I hoped to capitalize and earn 5 points by getting her phone number, the second during which I opened the door seemed to take days. I thought back to the day before, when Sóley, my crush from the first few weeks in Iceland, had come into my pizza restaurant. I´d told Þóra Björk, my co-worker, how I´d gotten Sóley´s number the first day I met her. Þóra Björk asked, "Are you crazy?" because I´d asked for her ...