Tuesday, 14 June 2016

Vik to Hofn (expanded)

Upon leaving our B&B in Vik, the owner showed us a map and said we should take road 206 to go to a beautiful canyon.  I pointed out that we did not have an all wheel drive car but she reassured us that the road was for any car.  So we dutifully turned down road 206 which quickly turned into a gravel road and then turned into a 1 lane rocky road down a winding steep mountainside. We weren't covered for gravel or the undercarriage!   At the bottom there were around 20 cars, 2 bathrooms and a path up a hill leading to spectacular views of this canyon.







Continuing east, our next stop was the glacier lagoon where we took a boat ride to get up close to the ice.  The colours were brilliant!





One interesting tid bit we learned was that this was the lagoon used for a Bond movie where they needed to drive on ice.  But the lagoon was not frozen.  So a wall was put in, blocking the passage to the ocean, thus preventing the warmer salt water from entering the lagoon and voila, the lagoon froze and the movie was filmed on the ice.

Saturday, 11 June 2016

At airport

We sailed through the airport rigmarole and are now relaxing with gastrolyte and various antibiotics. 

Ready to go

All packed. Ready for adventures.

Friday, 3 June 2016

#ready

Booked this tour:

https://insidethevolcano.com/

And bought these:

1 week to departure.  Here is our route:

Monday, 18 April 2016

Trevor!

these posts go in backwards order.  so for a trip do you blog every day then reverse the order at the end?

Thursday, 24 March 2016

Iceland! Here we come!!!!!!

So, our first attempt at blogging did not go very well.  We managed 1 week in Amserdam, 5 days in Berlin and and a few days in Copenhagen with not a single blog or photo posted.  We had a lot of adventures and laughs and did not share a single one!

Well, round 2 is coming up in June with a 12 day trip to Iceland.  This time we will be driving the Ring Road and exploring volcanoes, geysirs, caves, and waterfalls.  Our freeloader is joining us again.  We will try to document this trip better....