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Iceland Trip - 27th Aug to 6th Sep 2005
The scenery was absolutely breathtaking, which is reflected in the fact I took 1802 photographs. I have already sifted through them and reduced the number to 806 - still a lot, but all worth it. We started off in the blue lagoon near the airport, a thermal swimming pool with silicon mud to put on your face and a hot geyser spouting out steam in the …
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It's Tuesday walk day
... the Hverfjall Crater.
The path up the side of the crater is reasonably firm and easy with rock steps let in the side now and then. At the top it is a wonderful panoramic view out over the lake and surrounding countryside, with a drop into the grey ashen interior with a conic pile of gravel or ash in the middle.
Spoiled only by a large "Ban the Bomb" symbol scraped ...
Gerðu svo vel
... worked with thermodynamics before and I'm incredibly rusty in chemistry and math.
We also had four more Icelandic classes. We learned a lot of basic vocabulary and started getting a bit more familiar with some of the crazy grammar rules. Icelandic is pretty complicated when it comes to conjugation. The numbers one through four change based on the gender of the word that you're counting. Adjectives also change form based on the gender of the word you're ...
Tocht door het Noorden. deel 1
... de zee iets wilder en begon het te regenen. Er stak een behoorlijke wind op en de golven gingen al snel tot 3 meter hoog. Het kleine bootje op die grote oceaan stelde ineens niets meer voor. We werden flink door elkaar gehusseld. Er vielen mensen en er kwamen behoorlijke golven water overboord. Gelukkig hadden we van hun pakken gekregen maar natte voeten hebben we er wel aan over gehouden. De terugweg was voor de meeste mensen ...
Midges, Geysirs, and More
... 6pm – then decided, as delicious as this all was, it was getting late, and we had more to see.
From there, we drove over the hill to the boiling pots. The fumeroles were very impressive, but I still like the boiling clay pots best. I took many, many photos, some which came out quite well. Much of the land around is roped off, because the crust is quite thin and can go at any time … it looks very thin and cracked in places; we did not opt to test ...


