Hotel Geysir Selfoss

Easily one of the most memorable experiences of my entire life. I am running off a pure adrenaline high right now!! To be honest until now I had not gotten that "giddy/this is why I travel" feeling... but it hit loud and hard today. Which is awesome, as I was getting a little worried actually. <br><br>So last night I was torn as to what to do today. I was getting a little down about the ****** weather and didnt want to spend another day just being soaked ...

...and wind blowing every which way.<br><br>We arrived in Reykjavik before the sun was up, and drove our rental car away from the airport toward sunrise-pink, snow-capped peaks. Our first stop was þingvellir national park, the gorgeous site where Iceland's original parliament was founded. The park boasts a large lake that, apparently ...

Don't forget to click on one of the pictures.  That will bring up a full-size photo album  and you can use the "next" button to look at all the photos in sequence.<br><br> 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 ...

... democratic fashion. They seemed to have sat in concentric circles around the "law rock" and done their Alpthing "thing". The rest of the country came to visit, gossip, canoodle, horse trade and whoop it up. Fortunately for us, the place that seemed like a natural location to them, just happened to be on the fault line between the North American and European tectonic plates. So these really cool pictures show the NA plate pulling away at the rate of about 7mm a ...

... nicht mit uns**em v**glichen w**den kann. Man multiplizi**e die anzahl d** st**ne und st**nschnuppen mit 10.<br>bis auf einen zwischenstop bei den geysiren v**brachten wir den letzten tag hauptsächlich im bus. wir befanden uns schon relativ zentral in d** pampa, abseits von jed** asphalti**ten straße, und wollten abends in reykjavik ankommen.<br><br>nett** trip!<br>bald mehr. <br>

... they run through adn I am wearing my going out<br>party night clothes - hey I am not riding the dfam horse! .. so vigdis<br>goes just walk through the ditch but it´s a little wet. I was like<br>ummm how wet! anmd shes liek come on! so I walk in and next thing I<br>know I am UP TO MY KNEES IN MUD wet mud that looks like ****. I almost<br>DIED and how embarrassing these 2 rich guys going to get there dam white<br>horse and I am covered in mud/****!!!! they ...

... have been more appealing...nothing says unedible lik...e a little brown trail in one's food... Either way, I ate the meal in it's entirety, even though at moments I struggled with shells and juices...there were times where I thought that the dead crustaceans would persevere, but I triumphed, although I was quite encrusted with lobster goobers by the end of the meal (thank goodnes that our table was nestled in a dark corner...) Now for the 2 hour drive back to our hostel...

... call it a rest stop, but unless you've got the bladder of a baby, an old person or a pregnant woman (of which I'm neither) I'm not buying that. Next was a volcanic crater, nice, but not really that interesting. Gulfoss - a huge double waterfall, was pretty impressive, apparently more so in the summer when a giant rainbow gleams from it (the name means Golden Falls).They were actually going to turn this into a hydro-electric plant at one stage. This was followed by a trip to ...

... else! --------- We arrived in Reykjavik late on Friday night, after a major delay at the Oslo airport where all passengers had to evacuate the airport and go through security clearance again. After checking into our hotel we walked into the center of town and went to The Dubliner pub - it was Kevin's pick! Saturday morning we walked into town around 9:00 to go to the tourist office to make some travel plans. The streets are really ...