Hotel Hellissandur Olafsvik

... self-guided hop-on/hop-off tour of lava fields and beaches. We even attempted to drive up to the glacier, but once again encountered impassable roads. Tonight we're back in Reykjavik, and tomorrow we bid Peter adieu and embark on day one of the Iceland Airwaves music festival. Can this trip possibly get any better?

... with a whale sighting and a large herd of seals splashing about at the base of snow-peaked mountains. A snowy mountain road closure made us take the long way around, but we arrived in Grundarfjörður with enough time to take in the sights around town and we even managed a dip in the hot tub before bed.

... Go to Germany for beer festival.

Climb the Eiffel Tower. (That one is a big challenge for me, im afraid of heights)

Visit Sagrada Familia again. ( and climb it or go to the top )

I want to learn more about electric, I did learn some in technical school, but It was around 1994.
Electric is everywhere, people should know more about it!

More to come.. later!

This 100 kilometer long peninsula is dominated by Snæfellsjökull, an icecap that is the setting for Jules Verne´s Journey to the Centre of the Earth. The drive there took us along the west coast of Iceland following the Ring Road north. Everything was green and I have never seen so many lupines in my life! Beautiful lavender hillsides! We left the Ring Road at Borgames and headed west to the peninsula, stopping along ...

... but it was gravel and slow going. Only gas stations were open and although you can get a lamb steak at these pit stops, I could really go for a vegetable. Plus, we realized that we forgot our coats back at Syrup. Senica and I checked into a hotel that said it had a thermal pool, only to find out that the pool is actaully in a gym down the street - and closed for the holiday. Oh well.

Dinner was in the hotel lobby ...

Today we drove around Snaefells Jokul peninsula. The mountain was quite unimpressive relative to others in this land. We filmed a fun video pretending we were Journeying to the Centre of the Earth. Really though, we were at the top of the Centre of the Earth. The north part of the peninsula was lovely. We had the best meal in the whole country at noon ...

... end of the peninsula to see the glacier. Snæfelsjökull is a glacier/ice cap on the top of a volcanic mountain. It is where they went into the earth in Jules Vernes Journey to the Centre of the Earth. I didnt see it the first night because of cloud, but the next day was another gloriously fine Icelandic day and I could see the glacier in all its glory... very nice. It apparently has magical powers and many people have gone there to be inspired or healed or fixed ...

We're staying a Jakob's house in Reykjavik for the weekend. He's a friend we made out at Thorsmorck - he's half Icelandic and half British and a very nice man. He's got a lot to say and is easy to hang out with. He describes the changes brought about by the building of Keflavik Airport in the mid 80s and how it really opened up the country to international travel. Apparently it was built by the Americans (the ring road as well ...

Modern Oddyseus here, with news from my grandma, the nurse. Apparently, the headaches I get while swimming here are caused by my blood vessels shrinking from the cold. She says they´re shrinking in my body and my brain, and that´s what kills you. That news comes as a slight disturbance, but I only heard of it just now so my week was happily uninterrupted by such negative thoughts of death. On Monday, my courageous friend, Haukur, became the second person to join me in the ...

... Helgafell for the first time will have 3 wishes come true, provided a few conditions are followed: You must climb the southwest slope, not looking back or speaking on the way; You must make your wishes facing east; only benevolent wishes made with a guileless heart are granted; you must descend to the east and pay your respects at the grave of Gudrun Osvifursdottir. This woman from the Sagas was married 4 times during her long life. Her 1st husband abandoned her. She ...