Hotel Olafsvik

Nothing wakes you up like a jolt from an electric fence. I have a linear bruise on my inner thigh to prove it. We awoke before the sun to climb to the top of Grundarfoss, and a slight stumble while hopping said fence left me a little fried for the remainder of the hike. But we made it to the top for some stunning views of ...

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 ...

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Learn how to fish. Just some simple lake fishing. Maybe for dinner here and there.

Work on a mobile programs. And learn more about mobile programming, that is the applications you use on your mobile phone. Message me with any ideas on how to start. (I allready did alot windows and windows CE programming, but that was many years ago.)

Go to rock concert/festival..
Grundarfjörþur, Iceland iceslave

... way whenever we saw an interesting bird or a breathtaking landscape...many stops! We once again saw the ubiquitous arctic tern, loons, and lots more. And there are so many waterfalls! Basically everywhere you look there is some quantity of water tumbling down from the mountains - beautiful! At Buðir we turned north and drove toward the north coast of the peninsula heading for Olafsvik where we planned to spend the ...

... with a beautiful view. The food was disgusting, fish smothered in a beef gravy that had been cooked too long in the microwave. Yuck. Well, since they had no local food on the menu, we asked the waitress to bring us a shot of the local drink. We tasted something called Opal - a black salty medicine - and then tasted it again, and a third time (much better by this point).

When I get home I want to write some ...

... we left the ferry village of Stykkishôlmus. The mountains along the north side were beautifully coloured, lots of falls and tons and tons of birds nesting in crevasses near Olafvik. The south side was showery, it had sandy coloured hills and gravel mounds. Senica hid a bird, with the car by accident, it was small.

We forgot our coats in that ...

... their ills. I wanted to explore more so went for another long walk, however I underestimated the distance and was out walking for 6 hours. I went to another cute isolated church that looked very much loved, and also to a waterfall, however suffered the consequences by ending up badly sunburnt on my hands. Most of the rest of my body was fine as I had protected them, but I obviously neglected my hands and the tops of them got burnt and still hurt today, grrr. After ...

... they simultaneously built a military airbase for themselves (they cut a deal with the Icelanders). Iceland has been through some dramatic changes towards modernization over the last century, particularly since WWII. It's gone from being one of the poorest nations in Europe to being one of the wealthiest. Seems like a few good business deals having to do with the bottling of some Russian liquor followed by a series of coups in ...

... ocean. He screamed and complained a bit, but when he swims, he really swims! He and I stayed in the water for nearly ten minutes, which was good for me because I´d always been afraid to stay in for so long. When we got out, he wasn´t even cold, which he attributed to his "extra insulation." (Haukur has a baby beer-gut) He said to me, "When I heard you did this, I thought you were crazy, but..." He finished tying his shoes, as we stood on the rocks. "...now I ...

... persuaded to marry his friend/cousin/blood-brother and enticed him to kill her 1st husband. But them, #2 was killed by #1's brothers. She ultimately remarried twice, but ended up living out her life as a hermit around Helgafell. On her deathbed, her son asks her who she loved the best. Her reply--"I treated the worst the one I loved the most"--is famous for its ambiguity. You cannot ever tell anyone what you wish for on Helgafell mountain. And we headed back into Reykjavik.