Author Archives: Nicola and Michael

We’ve been back a couple of weeks and are missing Iceland. It surpassed our expectations and we are looking at going back to do the Western Fjord’s. Sorting through over 2500 photos is time consuming when work gets in the way, however it helps you relive the trip. Some photos Michael has merged to createContinue reading “Videos”

Today is the day you dread on a holiday, the day you return home. Our flight was 7.35am, so that meant 5.30am to check in. Taxi booked 5.15am and paid for by hotel, alarm set for 4am. Who gets up at that ungodly time in the morning. The rain was hammering on the windows soContinue reading “And we are home”

Today is our last day, the weather has changed to rain and apparently it was 0 degrees last night. We had a nice breakfast in the hotel. Not a huge selection but it was nice and had a fancy coffee machine which hit the spot. We set off to visit the bridge between two continents.Continue reading “We visited America”

We are nearly at the end of our amazing holiday. Today we didn’t have anything planned so had a leisurely breakfast. I had hoped to go riding but hadn’t booked anything. We’d found a stables on TripAdvisor which the hotel reception told us was just 5 minutes down the road, unfortunately there was no phoneContinue reading “Horse riding and hot tubs”

Today we left Akureyri to travel to Reykholt. It’s a three and a half hour drive, twisting and turning between valleys and mountains. Huge river beds and snow capped mountains. Our first stop was at Reykjfoss waterfall. The road took a bit of finding but after driving over a bit of what looked like aContinue reading “Hotel number 7”

After yesterday’s busy day and having nothing planned we decided to have a lazy day today. We had stayed up late to try and see the aurora borealis as our phone app’s were saying we might see them but no luck, we did get a lovely photo of the cathedral though so didn’t go downContinue reading “Lazy day and the story of Eider duck farm”

Today we had booked a day trip to Goddafoss and Lake Myvan. We were up early for breakfast to ensure we were ready. Breakfast was ok. Not as much choice as some of the other hotels but still fine. We were picked up at 9 in a small minibus by Thor from Star Travel. ThereContinue reading “Day trip”

Today we headed off to Akureyri, Iceland’s second largest town. Breakfast was ok, not a huge selection but what was there was nice apart from the chia pudding and the liquid cod liver oil to try. We set off at 9 and the sat nav said 3 hours 15 to destination. Once out of EgilsstadirContinue reading “I wish we had smell-o-blog.”

Today we left Fosshotel Glacier Lagoon and are moving to the Icelandair Hotel in Egilsstadir. This is a 4 and half hour drive. We had planned to visit the Icelandic War Museum, however it is shut on a Monday so we decided to just stop adhoc. As we were passing the Diamond beach we stoppedContinue reading “The long foggy road.”