Today, the program is rather loose. Breakfast in the room with the super market supplies and then drove to the city for a walk. There was a festival going on, celebrating the 150 years of the city of Akureyri. There were kindergarten kids everywhere, all dressed in...
The plan was to tour tha lake and then drive to Husavik but the weather forecast was bad for the next day and there might be no whale watching tours. So we changed the plan and decided to sleep in Akureyri and leave Husavik for the day after. We failed again to start...
Four tongues of the west side of Vatnajökull - the largest ice cap (3,100 km³) in Europe - end at the coast across Hotel Höfn, composing a beautiful panoramic view. A nice way to start the day. [gallery royalslider=1 name="1" style="width:100%" type="rectangular"...
We drove straight to the great waterfall of Skógafoss. At 62m high and 25m wide, it is one of the biggest in Iceland. The sun was shining and we climbed to the top, through the steps on the right side, not very easy but the views are definitely worth it. Next stop was...
It did not start well. If you decide to travel with Iceladair, be ready to spend €10 for a chicken salad and €6 for a pair of headphones. When we landed at midnight, it was dark and cold and windy and raining and of course, the car we had booked was not there, nor...
Amsterdam holds a very special place in my heart. It is the first city that I visited outside my home country. It was a present from my uncle for my acceptance in the university. I keep coming back, mainly for business and always try to make some time to walk the...
I had the opportunity to visit Barcelona for a couple of days for business. since this was first visit, I made sure I reserved on enough time to wonder the streets and get the pulse of the city. [gallery royalslider=1 name="1" style="width:100%" carousel="fx=carousel"...
Chios is a big - for Greek standards - island in the north east Aegean Sea, close to the Turkish coast of Izmir. We ended up a big party of five adults and five kids planned to spend our August vacation in the Chios and Ionia. Ionia, is a region with strong Greek...
Izmir, with all its antithesis, was the perfect hub for our mini tour in Ionia. The region holds a special significance to Greece, mainly due to the fact of what is called "the Minor Asia Disaster", the persecution of the Greek population in 1922. Although opinions...
We boarded the 9:30am ferry from Chios to Cesme with many tourists and some locals cross the narrow channel to shop for groceries or even fill their gas tanks. The prices on the Turkish coast are much lower than in Chios, which justifies for many a once a week round...