Hotel Ork Reykjavík
Breidumork 1c 810 Reykjavik Reykjavík, Iceland
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Quick Day at the Spa
A 5 hour flight and we were on a volcanic island in the middle of the very very cold Norweigen Sea. Thank goodness for the most amazing spa with gorgeous warm water and a swim up bar with mouth watering cold beer. Cheers to a few hours spent soaking up ...
A final challenge and finally relaxation!
... meat and even the tongue.
Still not fully accepting that our time in Iceland was rapidly coming to an end, we begrudgingly packed up and rode our last 30, and honestly quite unremarkable, miles to the airport on August 26th. To say we'd come full circle is certainly true, yet doesn't come close to capturing the growth and changes we'd undergone along the way. But more on that later...I think there's some sheephead-eating videos clips you won't want to miss...
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Return to Reykjavik
... were reflected in the still waters of roadside tarns. We made a short detour on sealed roads to Reykholt, showcasing the literary achievement of Snorri Sturluson, one of the local chieftains in the 13th century who was a leading figure in developing the saga style: he wrote the Prose Edda, one of only two main surviving sources on Norse mythology; the monumental Heimskringla, which contains sagas of the Norse Kings from the misty origins of the Ynglings to ...
Goose Bay, Labrador to Reykjavik, Iceland
... warmed up and I climbed back to 10,000 feet. The rest of the flight into Reykjavik was uneventful. Switched to Iceland Radio on 127.85 MHz, raised them before reaching EMBLA. Iceland Radio's phone# is +354-568-4600 (was also told it was +354-424-4141 by the FBO in BIRK). Re: communications, I also kept my #2 VHF radio on the inter-plane frequency of 123.45 MHz. I tried to raise another aircraft a few times to relay ...
Iceland Misbehaving - Just For Us!.
... You won't be going that way" then she added, "there are poisonous gasses, so there is an exclusion zone around the area and it has been totally evacuated" . Well it seems, even though the Icelanders are a bit coy in confirming that the bridge collapse was caused by volcanic activity,with poisonous gases involved one would think so! We drove down to ¨have a gander at the damage¨, however the Police were turning everyone ...
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