Cabin Hotel Iceland

... Year's Eve. Masses of people gathered around the fire and the atmosphere was really great. The Icelanders really went crazy! In Iceland, people launch fireworks already during the whole evening. It was a true spetacle! Around 10pm people go home to watch ...

Okay, since I'm hopefully going to Greenland tomorrow and  I will probably not have internet access around-the-clock then, I will write one last entry from Reykjavik now. I had another fabulous day here. This morning I went to Seltjarnarnes - a ...

... the name. This was a fantastic place and it was really nice getting an insight into the Viking past. Interesting thing about Iceland, the majority of men were Norse (from Norway) and the majority of women where from the Hebrides of mainland Scotland. We ...

... 'k.  Note:  Arrive on a Monday, please.   We stayed at the Hotel Cabin which was a major mistake.  A sad fact about Iceland is that accomodation is extremely expensive.  The whole reason we went is because their economy ...

... pizza quality have you read? probably only 10 or 12 at best.      Besides the afore-mentioned pizza, Iceland has a variety of amazing cuisine. They are renown for their lobster- which is smaller, sweeter, and much, much better than ...

... was still snow all around the water. On the way back to the hotel we stopped off at a historical old church - most churches in Iceland look alike - basic and small, with one steeple and a few small windows. We also stopped to pet some horses on the way. ...

Hi again!                     I spent another great day in Reykjavik. This morning, I had breakfast together with a young British doctor - I love the British accent! ...

Ok so we've arrived in Iceland and although I cant send this yet because I'm out of internet reach, it'll go out when im back in Reykjavik.    But I wanted to keep you all current ...I know it'll be a lot of info all at once but, for me, ...

Hveragerði: stayed in cabin at Eldhestar Hotel (quite expensive and no kitchen), did a horse ride ...

... off, got our bags and ready to meet Jade's Icelandic friend Freyja at the terminal who kindly arranged to take us to our hotel.  Immediately spinning the car around to head away from the airport in the wrong direction she took us away from the ...

... play hockey with his team as they already had an Australian playing for them. When I returned to the hotel I swear that I saw the guy from Iceland's 2008 Eurovision entry, Euroband, standing out the front. Then again, all Icelandic people look the ...

... . In our group there are about 20 people with 15 or so staying on to do the full 3 day trip. 2 uber cool boys from Iceland, an Australian family, B and O who have been teaching English in Japan but are from Canada, 2 Finnish girls, and the girls from my ...

... with resident adolescent male sperm whale, so of course we just had to book onto a trip. Having experienced whale watching in Iceland (Jen and Vicky F will remember) when we thought we may freeze to death on the open boat we dressed accordingly, with ...

... news, back in the room watching CNN (which can I say is the worst news channel I've ever watched) we found out about a volcano in Iceland that had erupted and was blocking entry to parts of the UK. We really didn't want to get stuck in Dubai as we'd seen ...

... air. My window shades had been closed since soon after we departed Copenhagen except for two quick peeks outside, the first over Iceland and the second over Greenland. We had flown over three thousand uneventful miles and, now, someone was, clearly, very ...

... in 1070 by King Olav Kyrre. In the Middle Ages, it was the center of the Kingdom of Norway which stretched from Greenland, Iceland, Ireland, and the Orkney Shetland, and Faroe Islands.  Bryggen has been destroyed by fire often, and the great fire of ...

... ; 2 Canada    5 Dutch    3 Great Britain    14 Germany    35 Iceland    1 Ireland    1 New Zealand    1 Switzerland    1 ...

... us, the food was great and so were the crew. I got to celebrate my 36th aboard amongst good friends from Iceland, Denmark, Sweden, Ecuador, US, Scotland, England, Spain, Germany and Switzerland. We managed to visit nine different islands; San Cristobal, ...

... Stefi started getting an understanding of wilderness. In Italy (and probably most of Europe for that matter, apart from maybe Iceland & Greenland), you can't get away to remote places days away from any human habitation. We were also breathing ...