After driving the equivalent of nearly three times around Iceland’s ring road (2.67x to be precise) our 18 day road trip has come to an end. What a trip, and what a country. Our last few holidays have been more an appreciation of what beauty man, through its creations, has added to the planet over […]
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Gushing one way or another
So before I tell you about our journey along the south coast I am going to correct an omission. I have had a complaint – I haven’t posted any pictures of food yet. So the first two photographs are from our meal in the hotel restaurant Saturday night. To be honest they were the best […]
Ice Ice baby
After discussing where to stop en route to Skaftafell my job was to programme Agnes. “Route may include unpaved roads” flashed up on the screen under the one and only suggested route. I was a little puzzled as I knew the ring road would take us all the way but this seemed 40 minutes quicker […]
All because the lady loves . . .
Tuesday we were on a mission. After a quick walk after breakfast to the harbour we were going to drive 135 miles straight to Egilsstadir. We would stop along the way when the fancy took us but no detours off the main road. The first part of the journey was back to Mývatn past all […]
He had a puffin, dolphin, minke and humpback whale of a birthday
Húsavik is really just round the corner, well headland, from Akureyri and was our shortest scheduled drive. However, why drive 33 miles when you can drive 139? Yes we deliberately decided to drive the 80% rather than the 20% of the “Diamond circle” from Akureyri to Húsavík. This took us past Godafoss, where I managed […]
Rotten Eggs
Thursday morning we were blessed with clear blue skies and sunshine. Just as well as today was our longest journey and to do it in the rain would have meant that the planned 376 miles would have taken even longer and our appreciation of the scenery would have very much taken a back seat. Our […]
If you don’t like the weather then just wait 10 minutes
With parking prices as bad as London when we arrived on Sunday we managed to find one of the free weekend parking spaces. As Monday was a Bank Holiday free parking expired at 09:00 on the Tuesday morning so we left Reykjavik at 09:00 on the dot. Tuesday we had an itinerary of 5 planned […]
Iceland’s one and only city
So we left sunny Leeds and a balmy 21ºC for Reykjavik. A wonderful 145 minute flight courtesy of the very friendly and in some ways quirky and quintessential Icelandic airline (look at the photos). When we landed it was as predicted – grey, wet and cold at a massive 4ºC. Having checked the weather conditions […]
Every day brought a new favourite curry
We are really at the end as I sit here at 01:00 Indian time at Delhi airport waiting for our flight to Heathrow. The three weeks have flown by, literally as we now find we have “frequent flyer” status with Air India/Vistara having taken five internal flights so that we merited an upgrade on two. […]
Breathe in, breathe out . . . and relax
After a leisurely breakfast we were picked up and driven a couple of hours to Pallathuruthy for our trip on a houseboat. Whilst we drove through numerous villages around the rivers of Kerala we saw some wonderful churches, all different and colourful, some massive and bright coloured houses and many plant/garden centres. There was an […]