Hotel Nordurland Akureyri

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... met with hulda and suzanna just said a quick hello because they said it was mandetory that we stay for dinner ha ha yes umm there was no hey do you want to stay for dinner it was YOU STAY FOR DINNER we were liek uhh yes yes of course... haha so we raced off to husavik to the penis musem. we then drove back and had a nice dinner with the family suzasnna MADE me try the fish there was no if ands or buts you try... umm ok... yeah still didn´t like it but hey I ...

... moment to have experienced together. However, Sam was really quite ill and said we said we ought to stay in our tents 'cause no one would get any sleep and she was knackered, bless her. So we did all try to cram into one tent for the night, but four man tents anre FOUR MAN tents for a reason... they can NOT sleep eleven people! Soon enough we were all in our own tents, thinking of all the fantastic memories of the week ...

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*Naturally, there are no photos for this entry!!!!

P.S. When we came out of the leisure centre we all sat on the pavement to wait for the coach. By this point in the trip we were well and truly past caring what we looked like and worrying about embarrassing ourselves (we're a crazy bunch anyway so why waste effort avoiding it?!)... so most of us curled up on the floor for a nice little snooze. =)

Tuesday 22nd July 2008

At last, the moment we've all been waiting for... We've stuck out three days in the rain with our crazy tour guide and although we've seen some amazing sights and picked up some hilarious quotations from her, I think we all agreed that it was with a sigh of relief that we watched the coach pull away from our camp, taking her back to Reykjavik to torment the next lot of unsuspecting travellers. We wish you luck and hope you brought your eye mask and ...

... outside the window to the room. This is a little disconcerting, when you glance out of your verandah. Regardless of the lack of whales, again it is incredibly picturesque. Regrettably, one whole mountain range was in clouds the entire time we were docked. The other, you could see the top, and it was snow covered. When we departed the ship, I bet Teresa 500 Krone the it would rain eventually. Amazingly, she won the bet. It misted a few ...

... know the street address, just that it was the only youth hostel in town...inevitably, we found a translator and we made it there in good time... The hostel was wonderful! The hostel owner let us check in early (at 10:30, instead of after 3 pm like we were supposed to) and he gave us tons of helpfuly tips! If there's one thing that Icelandic people do well, it's information...they have hundreds of informative brochures ...

Yesterday I flew from Reykjavik in the south to Akureyri, the capital of the north. Due to the dense cloud cover the only remarkable part of the flight was the plane. I can't remember the last time I was in a propeller driven airplane, if ever. After landing I discovered that there was no bus service into town, and not wanting to blow the day's budget on a taxi, I ...

... the water after the country adopted christianity 1000 years ago. Goðafoss is surrounded by rocks and small caves. While exploring, I jumped down a large hole in the rock before realizing how I´d get back up. I was thirty feet below where I wanted to be, and my only way to get there was by climbing the flat cliff. I found the best spot with a few good holds and headed up. As I climbed, I got farther and farther away from the big ...