Velkomin á Bloggið Mitt or "Welcome to my blog" in Icelandic (According to Google Translate) This is my fifth blog in a continuing series of vacation blogs from around the world. Every year Susie (my wife) and I pick a town, rent an apartment for a month (thank-you VRBO.com), no car and live like the … Continue reading Read Me First
Our Itinerary We are going on "Self Driving Tour" set-up by a company called Icelandic Farm Holidays. It is 13 days/12 Nights long and will we drive ~900 miles. I know what you are thinking... "Icelandic FARM Holidays". Like this is going to be Green Acres and I'm Oliver Wendell Douglas and Susie (my wife) … Continue reading Our Itinerary
Going Home & Some Final Thoughts WOW! these 2 weeks just flew by. So here are a few random thoughts in no particular order: Iceland is AWESOME!!!! I've been lucky enough to visit some pretty great places (Grand Canyon, the whole southwest, the fjords of Norway, the Alps, the Amalfi Coast, Japan...) but Iceland is … Continue reading Aug 5 – Going Home
Shopping Malls, Horse Play, More Shopping, A Little Weirdness & The Best Pizza in IcelandSo we got up and headed to Reykjavik, realizing this was our last full day in Iceland :-(After a great breakfast, we headed out for a place Susie learned about from the owner of our house. Amazingly we found the place. … Continue reading Aug 4 – Reykjavik
Where Is The Time Going?, Rock & Troll? & Camping PodsTime??WOW! we only have a couple days left in Iceland :-(Speaking of time and thinking about the beautiful sunset last night, it is amazing how quickly the sunsets/sunrises are changing. Here is the official civilian sunrise/set times on the dates we arrived and when we … Continue reading Aug 3 – Borgarnes
The Spaniards, Our Car Gets Bath, Hitchhikers Galore, Hay We Got Horses Too and The Italians Are Coming 🙂 The Spaniards We had a wonderful dinner and had some nice conversations with the staff. We found out they were all from Spain... the Barcelona area. I showed them some of my photo from Barcelona from last year... they … Continue reading Aug 2 – Brjanslaekur
Shaking it With Salt n Pepa, Iceland's Most Beautiful Waterfall, Damn Fjords, A Little WeirdnessAs we checked out this morning, I noticed several display cases around the lobby full of salt & pepper shakers. It seems the owners like to collect them and have 324 sets on display...They owners also told us we would be … Continue reading Aug 1 – Baroastrond
body.single-post Tunnel of HELL!, Soviet Style & I Try Whale Meat We awoke to a cloudy, gray rainy day 😦 as we headed off for the west fjords. Tunnel of HELL and why the Letter "M" is Sooooo Important! So we entered a tunnel. The sign said it was ~ 4 miles long. OK... Got … Continue reading July 31 – Bolungarvik, West Fjords
Does it Ever Get Dark?, Lesson in Retailing & Susie has an Alternation Some people were making some noise last night & I couldn't fall back to sleep. So I got up and grabbed a glass a water and looked out side. Here is what I saw @ 3:00am!!!!! CRAZY!!!Here are a few shot in the … Continue reading July 30 – Holmavik
Windshields Cam, Whale Watching, Godafoss Waterfall, Red Bull, & Hot Rods in Iceland???So we are leaving the middle of nowhere today... YEAH!Introducing the Windshield Cam :-)You already know about the Sandwich Cam but now I'm happy to announce the "Windshields Cam". As I have mentioned, the roads have no shoulder and very few areas to … Continue reading July 29 – Whale Watching, Godafoss Waterfall,
J.J. in Iceland 