Hotel Valaskjalf Egilsstadir

... got to chat to Larissa in NZ. The food was fantastic too. It was so freezing outside, but so cosy inside, we really didn’t want to leave.

Eventually we had to move off back over the mountainside to find our hotel, and what a gorgeous find that was too; a lakeside room full of querky furniture with a heated floor. Good job really as there were wet walking boots and socks to dry from the sea incident in the morning.

... objets bizarres mais sans doute civilisés?








On est bien chez les pêcheurs d'Islande, ils font sécher du poisson.








A Bakkagerdi, des puffins, des puffins, des puffins.... (en français: macareux) On a encore environ 300 photos en r ...

... be back for the weekend to party with him!!

we started our trip around the country!!! 1st waterfall was svliandsfoss it was SO COOL and we got to walk behind it! yes a little wet after wards!!!

2nd waterfall sköqafoss was also very cool and BIG theWHATTTT!!!! water was COLLLLDDD

we drove through amazing valleys with cows horses streams and mountains!

we then stayed the night in VIK

we actually stayed at ...

... the knowledge that there was a small coffee shop near the highway that we had seen on the way in. We not only had coffee, but a delicious apple pastry as well. YUM!!! And then...onwards. Our plan was to get to Egilstaðir and get a room for the night. According to Lonely Planet, this city is drab even in a country where drab is the norm and we were a ...

... mais joue son role pour notre premier pique-nique islandais







Premier contact avec la faune locale: Waterbuck? Male ou femelle?








Pre miers paysages entre deux averses.








Premier hebergement a Staffafel, loin de tout!

Friday, August 8, 2008 The Eastern Fjords Dear Readers: A light mist and fog enshroud the mountains this morning as we make our way up the coast of Iceland into the Eastern Fjords. Our first stop is at Djupivogur where a few people stay in town to read or visit a museum, and the rest of us take a short hike to appreciate the first of the many fjords we see today. An interesting stop as we zigzag up the coast is at ...

Wednesday the 16th Looks like I might have had the dates wrong on the previous posts... We pulled into the Seydisfjordur fjord around 6am with wonderful bright sunshine shining. I have run out of adjectives to describe the beauty of the ports we have visited - and Seydisfjordur is probably the most glorious. Certainly, the sunlight helped. But the walls seemed steeper, the peaks higher and snowier, and the water a deeper shade of blue. Pictures just don ...

... with her baby, who is as cute as babies tend to be and then there's an older particularly friendly reindeer who trots down to visit and participate in some muzzle snuffling and timeless gazing with us... The reindeer farm well worth going WAY out of the way for...and then we aim the Yaris in the direction of the highest farm in all of Iceland, Mothrudalur...the rather stone-hearted woman at the tourist info desk in Egilsstdtir, who used ...

... meal; Shirl and Bill did it all.              After dinner, I wrote while a bunch of people played monopoly in some language that we never identified for sure.  Magnus tried to read it but it wasn't Icelandic.  My guess is Finnish.  It was funny to hear them reading the Chance and Community Chest cards.  Jeff was declared the winner.               Most people went out to a tapas bar but I was beat and turned in.  After warming my cold feet, I was asleep. 

... Patrick, I finally headed for my night's lodging in Neskaupstadur. To get there, I had to drive along a road that goes over a high mountain pass in the fog and rain, definitely hazardous driving conditions. It was stress-inducing to the nth degree. I got to my hotel Edda at about 5 and only left my room once to go and purchase a take-away pizza for my dinner. I read in my room until lights out at close to 10 PM.