Foss Mosfell Hella

... can snorkel in year-round, though the temperatures in the low thirties didn't exactly make me want to throw on my bathing suit. We settled instead for exploring the grounds--we had the place entirely to ourselves for the first hour or so (landing at 6 in the morning has its benefits afterall). The scenery was indescribably beautiful, and ...

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 The night after we went to Thingvellier and Geysir, we stayed at a lovely small hotel outside of the town of Hveragerthi.  Hveragerthi is interesting because it sits on top of one of the volcanic fissures and has a thriving hothouse industry growing vegetables in greenhouses heated geo-thermally ...

... Supposedly, it has silica and other minerals that are sure to cure any ailment. It's a fantastic set-up. Very efficient and orderly, and oh so soothing to our weary bones. And, they have beer!
I happen to love this country, but methinks my wife is ready to move on to a warmer clime.

Driving south on the No 1 we have gone over 2000km in the past 8 days. Half the distance from here to Toronto. Half the distance from Toronto the Alberta/BC border. It is a windy day, a cloudy sky. Senica is cursing at the slower driver up ahead. I was reading a bout Hveragerdi - hot spring garden. We may head there today. We are looking forward to ...

We just had our first local lamb and they gave us a super dessert b/c we're on our honeymoon. There were greenhouse grown strawberries in this yummy dessert. The owner of the guesthouse served us and said most of the produce comes from local greenhouses (what an ingenious idea, why doesn't everyone in Canada do that?) We drove past tons of greenhouses today, Senica was so intrigued. They are heated by the country's thermal ...

Well I thought we were pretty lucky to get a map!! However, this map has red roads like veins in your wrist - criss crossed and squiggly in all different directions. As the navigator, I hardly knew where we were going! It took us all day to come 100km from Reykjavik. Granted, we took a wonderfully scenic route. Now, at long last, we are settled into a guesthouse in Fludir and sipping Jokull Bjor (Glaricer Beer). To get where we are now, we had to rent our car, get ...

... told me to catch the bus! The buses actually stop running on the 31st of August through the Kjolur route (and throughout most of Iceland) and the road is basically closed for winter come the end of next week. I stopped for 2 nights at a placed called Kerlingarfjoll - 10km off the Kjolur route and across 2 unbridged rivers it wasn´t the easiest place to reach! The weather was shocking with a lot of wind and rain - it was incredibly miserable and to ...

• Hveragerði:
  stayed in cabin at Eldhestar Hotel (quite expensive and no kitchen),
  did a horse ride

... to come to Iceland (Why ever not?! Are they whale crusaders?!) and so doubles were used in the filming at Jokulsarlon. However, I became a little bit more of an Angelina Jolie fan after I was told that not only had she come to the lagoon but we were on the exact same boat that they'd used for the film! First, my ass was planted in the same seat as Kim Catrell in a taxi in Dublin, and now my feet have stood in the same exact spot ...