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Which way to the centre of the earth?
Although we stayed another night in Grundarfjordur I'm putting the map pin in Stykkisholmur because we went there today and this represents the furthest north that either of us have ever been on the surface of the planet. I think our flight to Costa Rica via Miami in 2003 might have gone even further north but I don’t reckon it counts.
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Fjording it Up
Turns out Isafjörður is a gorgeous little town, even if we were the only tourists crazy enough to venture up there during the off-season. We wandered around a bit in the morning before hopping back in the Hyundai and heading south. It was a winding drive around the reaching fingers of the west fjord, and we were treated with a whale sighting and a …
Stykkisummerhouse!
... to listen to, even though we didn’t understand a word. Then it was time for us all to sing, and after producing some songbooks we all had a great time belting out various songs, some in English and some in Icelandic. The chap was very funny, introducing every song with a little story explaining how he came to write it, including all the Beatles classics and so on, all delivered with a dead pan expression. We sang our hearts out until 1 ...
Relaxing start to the adventure
... out of Reykjavik. Further out we entered that same rocky landscape from our arrival (we were headed back in the direction of the airport) but in the full light of the day it made an even more spectacular sight. On the way we passed an ocean-side golf course with carefully manicured fairways nestled between the black mossy volcanic rocks - on this course 'the rough' is quite literal, with a stray ball likely to pinball off among the ...
The wonders of Snæfellsnes
... water.
We drove on past some volcano plugs to the entrance to a lava tube. We could see inside through a hole to the snow and ice inside. In the olden days people used to use it like a refrigerator or take some of the ice for drinking water.
We saw the old rock cairns which were often used as markers along the numerous single-file roads or paths that crisscrossed the island; many of these ancient cairns are still standing, although the paths ...
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