Month: March 2015

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Iceland Day 12:Making our way back

On day 12 we’d planned to visit snaefellsjokull, but like so many things in the north, the road was closed. We decided to drive all the way around Snæfellsnes Peninsula instead, stopping wherever we were commanded. Most of the squiggly sign stops were uneventful, but one -Lóndrangar- made it worth it. On the southern tip of […]

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Iceland Day 9: Swimming in the Snow

We took a short detour from Akureyri to see the Christmas Village, which ironically isn’t open until April, so we were creepily walking around this abandoned santa’s village peeking in windows. We set out for the basalt columns of Kalfshamarsvik.   Unfortunately, we were met with impassable snowdrifts about a mile from the viewing site […]

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Iceland Day 7: Little Lights

We left Skalafell and headed east towards the EastFjords. There were many incredible vistas of the cool blue fjords reflecting high mountain peaks. When we ate lunch in a small fishing town called Breiðdalshreppur. The waitress saw our map and let us know that route 1 was closed just up the hill. We tried to […]

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