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Monday august 13'th
Leaving Vejle by train at 4.48 om. Direct to Kastrup Airport.
As usual im there in good time before my departure with Icelandair at 10.20.
The plane is full. Mostly icelandics. Some of them make good
use of the bar during the trip. The trip takes a little more than 3 hours, but there is a
2 hours time-difference, so it's only 11.30 as we arrive in Keflavik. Then it's the flybus
- to Reykjavik and Hotel Atlantis - I
check in at about 2 am.
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Tuesday august 14'th I wake up at 9 am. It's a lovely day - a little
cold compared to back home - but the sun is shining. Now for the first look at this place. I take a long walk to Downtown
Reykjavik from the hotel. According to the hotels homepage this should be done in 10
minuttes!. That's a lie. It takes a little more than half an hour. I take a walk along the
harbour, before i turn to the BSI, which
is the mainpoint for busses to other places on Iceland.
I find a bus to Þingvellir. Back in the old viking-days
people gathered here for "Alting" - a kind of parliement these days - hvor
things were discussed and heads were rolling. Read more about that in the Icelandic sagas.
It's an exiting and beutiful place. I walk around for 3 hours before the bus returns to
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From here I take the local bus back to Atlantis. Some fastfood, some relaxation and back to
bed.
Wednesday august 15'th
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By bus to Þórsmörk, an impressive place some
3 hours drive from Reykjavik. You don't have to get far outside Reykjavik before nature
gets something special. Lots of lava-fields and strange nature. The last hour of the trip
is on a special bus. There is a reason for that. The "road" is pure
stone-desert, and quite some times we have to cross small rivers. And since there are no
bridges - well - you just have to drive through the water. It's not strange that a 4WD is
recommended, if you go here by yourself. I've
got 3½ hours in Þórsmörk I walk around og look at this magnificent landscape.
Þórsmörk is placed between 3 mountains, each with a glacier at the top. More
spectacular than actually beutifull - but very spectacular indeed. There are not many
people around on a day like this. According to the locals there are more people during the
weekends. At these times people from Reykjavik often goes to Þórsmörk to get drunk and
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Then it's back to Reykjavik - and some fastfood at the hotel.
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Tuesday august 16'th This day is to be spent in Reykjavik. I start by
taking the bus to downtown. Then up to the "Hallgrimskirkjan" - the most
spectacular church in Reykjavik. I take a look at the church, and take a look at Reykjavik
from the top of the tower. From here I walk to the Volcano-show. It's a 2-hours movieshow, made by the legendary
volcanic-scientist Villi Knudsen. This guy thinks that it's great fun to go around Iceland
and film all volcanic-eruptions. Villi introduces the show, which is very exiting. I
especially enjoy the film about the eruption om Heimey back in the 70's - maybe because I
still remember that it made a huge impression on me as I watched it on tv as a child.
Then it's sightseeing in Reykjavik - some fast-food - back to the hotel to
get some warmer clothes - before I head for the Videy-ferry, that will take me - and some
others - on a puffin-trip to the small island of Lunday. Puffins are a special
northern-atlantic bird with a funny and colourful beak. This is to be the first rip-off on
this trip. 2500 Icelandic Kroner - some 25 us$ for 1½ hours of sailing, where we
are told there are puffins. But they are so far away, that it's impossible to see what is
a puffin and what is a seagull. And who wants to be spending so much money for watching
seagulls?!!
Then it's back to the hotel via the Laugadalur-park. Some
fastfood for dinner this evening. To Isafjörður |
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