Completing the Ring

It was raining when I went to sleep and raining when I woke but I slept like a log in between, all that fresh air helps! We had a longer drive today and a deadline to meet so we set out promptly at 8.30 and drove back through Akureyri town…

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North to Akureyri

The Old School House was a very comfortable AirBnb loction, however it is set up with one apartment on the ground floor ( us) and one apartment on the top floor ( a family of heavy footed hippos!) We were woken at 7am by the hippos as they were getting…

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Iceland’s East Fjords

Breakfast this morning was tasty but the best thing about the meal was the view! The other nice thing about the morning was a hot shower. We had no hot water last night at all in our room or Simon’s which was a bit of a worry. Fortunately we could…

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Spectacular South Coast

We really were blessed today. It was an absolutley extraordinary day of amazing scenery in glorious sunshine, something we learned has been in short supply here over the summer. We had a big day of sightseeing planned so we hit the road promptly at 9am for a short drive down…

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The Golden Circle

Iceland certainly lived up to the hype today! We woke to more rain and drove out of Reykjavik in heavy showers which wasn’t very encouraging. However they tell you that if you don’t like the weather in Iceland just wait 5 minutes and it will change…and it certainly did!  Throughout…

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Rain and Beer in Reykjavik

We’ve left the sun behind in Finland! After a leisurely breakfast we set out to see the sights of Reykjavik in a drizzly rain that lasted all day. A stroll down the main shopping street, Laugavegur , we checked out a selection of the ( many) souvenir stores before a…

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On to Iceland!

Most of the day was spent in transit, Simon and Jatta met us in the lobby just after ten and we hit the road back to Helsinki airport. Everything went very smoothly with checkin and we had our Icelandair boarding passes all ready to go. The flight was a bit…

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