Grand Hotel Reykjavik Reykjavík

... 1080;сты 81; и аккур 72;тный. Водит 77;ли уступ 72;ют дорог 91; пешех 86;дам. Пешех 86;ды тоже не перех 86;дя ...

... was open long enough for a nice soak. But, it was too late. So, we headed to the city to catch a glimpse of night life. According to lonely planet guide and the websites I read, Reykjavik is a party town. Hmmm... I guess for someone coming from Washington DC area with the idea of party as something like Adams Morgan style, there was no disappointment. We found all kinds of partying going on. There were bar with high energy and some night ...

Okay, they've got something backwards here. The first stop when I got of the plane at Keflavik Airport was... a security checkpoint! HUH??? What the hell? I mean a full pre-boarding check...take off shoes...laptop out...walk through the x-ray... Don't these guys understand that the terrorists have already blown up the plane by now? There was a little sign explaining the reason why we had ...

... been melting over the years, and we admired the beautiful blue color of the ice (caused by the intense pressure). Around the time we reached the highest point we could go, it stopped raining - hallelujah! Needless to say, the hike down was much more pleasant than the hike up. Despite the weather, it really was one of the coolest, craziest things we've ever done - something we'll remember forever.

After we were done, you know, hiking on glaciers and all that ...

... value. It won`t be a late night though, since I have to catch the bus back to the airport at 5 tomorrow morning... Yuck. I`m looking forward to a slightly more relaxed week in London and Paris... The past week has been pretty epic, and I feel like I`ve been gone a lot longer than I actually have. Anyway, that`ll about do for now. I should have some photos up either tomorrow or Monday, since I`ll have access to a computer where I can dump some photos. Til next time then.

... easy to walk around as there is so little traffic, and undertook a long walk to the Saga museum. The Sagas being Icelands history as it was written in about the year 1200. The museum is about 17 diarama displays made out of really lifelike wax models with a personal audio commentary ipod that you carry with you. It was good, the displays are quite gruesome - ill post photos later. One of the more interesting stories was how Iceland literally converted to Christianity ...

... long time. Patrick got sort of bored but at least we saw a whale. It was a Minke whale so I'm glad we didn't waste out money. Afterwards we just found our hotel and checked in. It was an apartment rented out for hotel use so we had a living room and kitchen which was nice. It was raining again so we decided just to shop and walk around the town. We ate some dinner and then went back to the hotel to rest.

3rd day: today i met some more people - woop! :) both german students who both are studying in the same department, so we had the meeting...which i will talk about in a sec...then went to find the department. it seems nice enuff... however, disorganised maybe a national trait - or so it seems at the moment...the academy is going thru a "transitional phase" .... hmmm sum good studio ...

... to leave. It is one of the funniest pictures ever - Jose the Grumpster. Anyway, we figured we'd just take the bus to the youth hostel and pick up whatever room we could get from them - even it had to be a dorm. I must say we've been very fortunate so far on this trip to get private rooms at decently economical rates in all the hostels/hotels in every country. Well, until Iceland that is. Before I go on, the other interesting thing we noted while being grumpy on the bus was ...