Arctic
On With The Journey
I finished my time in Iceland on Monday, June 23, with a walk around the city of Reykjavik. . It was very quiet seeing that it was Sunday morning. I wandered down by the harbour and found some interesting vessels, one of which was a whaling ship that was out of the water on a […]
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Landmannalauger
My final tour yesterday, was to somewhere very different. My first day tour took me around the Golden Circle – a set of standout sites and cultural places near Reykjavik. The second was to see scenery, but this tour was to a volcanic desert and a geothermal site named Landmannaluger. I understand that this loosely […]
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Iceland’s South Coast
Yesterday was a long day of sight seeing. We travelled around to the town of Vik and explored the coast. I didn’t get back to Reykjavik until 8.00 pm and it was nearly 9.30 pm after I stopped of for dinner in town centre. Iceland has three large ice caps and we skirted around the […]
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Iceland Golden Circle Tour
Today was really good. The weather was fine with a temperature of about 14c. I set off on the first of three one-day tours, this one to some of the stand-out attractions near Reykjvick. It also answered some of the questions that I had formulated from some of my observations. Our first stop was at […]
Read MoreTravelling to The End of the Earth
I think that if you dug a hole in your Melbourne backyard through the centre of the earth, you would actually come out in the Atlantic Ocean, somewhere south west of England. Iceland isn’t that far from that spot and I feel as though I am close to being on the opposite side of the […]
Read MoreUpgraded to Nowhere
I expected to upload my first post on this arctic trip from somewhere else, but here I am still in Melbourne! Last night, I had a very leisurely check in on my flight to Hong Kong and then on to Oslo and Helsinki. I was delighted to find that I had been upgraded to first class on the Melbourne […]
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Arctic Adventure
In two weeks time (June15, 2009), I’m off on another polar adventure. This time to the north – to the Svalbard Archipelago. which is part of Norway, lying far to the north of the Norwegian mainland and high above the Arctic Circle. I plan to spend a short time in Iceland on the way as […]
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