by eliasc64 | Sep 10, 2012 | Destinations, Europe, Greece, Short Visits
It was a bold decision to spend one week in Iceland during the summer. Being Greek, vacation means beach and sunbathing, so the idea to spend the entire summer holidays in freezing temperatures was a bit too much. We had just one week and we did not want to spend it...
by eliasc64 | Sep 4, 2012 | Destinations, Europe, Iceland, Trips
We were looking for a place to go in August and started wandering around the web for ideas to visit different distant destinations like Borneo, Costa Rica and Uganda. But we wanted to keep the trip length to ten days max, so we narrowed our search to places closer to...
by eliasc64 | Sep 2, 2012 | Destinations, Europe, Iceland, Iceland Trip 2012
We saved the last day to see Reykjavik, a town combining Iceland’s culture with a modern European metropolis. With a population of 200 thousand, it is small but full of life, traditional but trendy and certainly full of surprises. Colorful Downtown Reykjavik...
by eliasc64 | Sep 1, 2012 | Destinations, Europe, Iceland, Iceland Trip 2012
After a good breakfast, we left at around 10:30 to visit the Great Geysir, about 100km east. This the real thing, the geyser, after which all geyeirs are named. It used to blow hot water at 60-70m high – once it reached 122m – but it was clogged when,...
by eliasc64 | Aug 31, 2012 | Destinations, Europe, Iceland, Iceland Trip 2012
We started the tour of the Snaefell peninsula in heavy fog and rain, the worst weather since we arrived. Ten km west of Grundarfjörður, we saw a “Dead Whale” sign on the right. We followed the rough road between the green covered lava fields, facing an...
