Hraunsnef Country Hotel Borgarnes

... The only vegetables grown are cucumbers, tomatoes and green peppers (probably lettuce too, but no one mentioned it.) Everything else is imported. So what we were seeing out in the countryside was pretty much it--sheep, horses, dairy cows and hayfields.<br><br>I like to travel to learn things and I learned a lot in Iceland. I also was in awe of the spectacular landscape in the south and the east. We still haven't mastered the limits of the camera we were using ...

... undergarment that I will put on before the dry suit. He has all the gear I can possibly need. He starts piling up our gear into four piles. Weights, fins, mask, undergarment, BC, (buoyancy compensator), tank, dry suit, hood, and gloves. Each pile of gear is about 2' high. I put on my own long underwear and thick socks and start to work on getting into the rest of the gear.<br><br>The undergarment was like a full body leotard but a quilted leotard with very fat batting. I manage to ...

... br> We also saw the site of Pingvellir which is where their first parliament was convened some time around 900 a.d. or so. She was remarking on how it was the first parliament ever anywhere and I have heard this claim in several other countries so I am thinking that if you make a definition that only you will fit, then you can definitely claim to be the first in that category. There is quite a ridge there of the ...

REYKJAVIK Actually, despite the idyllic setting we were steaming through as we left the Faroes we were all a bit apprehensive at that moment. This was the beginning of the trip across the North Atlantic. We could easily be leaving good weather behind as we began a week of cruising the open seas. According to the news, two separate hurricanes were ploughing northward up the Eastern Seaboard of the North American continent. Just where might we meet them ...

... chose to go to a small bar on the corner of Austurstraeti and Ingólfstraeti called Prikid. We both got burgers and a beer (Viking). Kent got the Italian Burger and I got the Party Burger. The Italian had prociutto, provolone and basil and was pretty tasty. I got the Party Burger out of sheer curiosity! It had 4 kinds of cheese; parmesan, bleu cheese, camembert and muenster and instead of ketchup was ...

Narsarsuaq. Sunshine. Just beautiful. Matsu a Japanese ferry pilot is already awaiting us. He is stuck here because of a technical problem. Wev'e got an alternator (part of the aircraft that produces electrical power) for him and we have to bring his life raft and one immersion suit back to Wick in Scottland. Refueling, filing the flight plan and eating a original Greenland Hot Dog (there is nothing else really) is all we do here. Up we ...

And so begins one the most surreal weeks of my life. Iceland is expensive, clean, modern and oh so Scandinavian. My only regret would be not seeing the rest of the island and some of the scenery but time, money and the weather would be the deciding factors. The Blue Lagoon is a hit and the package tours, of which I hate so much, prove ...

... hit an internet cafe come back n the sofa bed is gone, but still a duvet, pillow and desk down. so...i'v now been to the mall....and felt much better...being surrounded by people helps, not being able to speak the language doesn't...but gots me a vodafone sim card and food and pillows (the blanket i brought will have to do for tonight) the mall helped even more so coz they were giving ...

... to his office where we returned the ISOR vehicle. We then swung by his house before going to four bookstores to buy copies of the guidebook. The first two books cost $60 each. Thereafter, I asked for a discount. The student bookstore sold me seven for $46 each. Then Þráinn dropped me off on Laugarvegur and I went to the M&amp;M bookstore to get the geological maps. After that, we went to a Chinese ...

... day pulled to the side of the road for me in the town of Hveragerði, I decided I´d go for some big points. "Hallo, vei getz!" I said in my best German accent. "Eek heisa Claus. Sprechen se Deutsche?" That´s all the German I know, and Gilsi took an immediate delight in thinking he had a German with him in the car. Gilsi was short, about 24, with a clueless country-boy smile. His impressive German vocabulary frightened me into thinking he might bust me for ...