Hvitanes

May 1, 2016.Reading time 4 minutes.

On a small peninsula jutting into Hvalfjordur lies the remains of a US and British WWII naval installation. Not much actually survives, just the twisted remains of a steel pier and a few concrete buildings, but this was a fairly sizeable installation (along with the British based in Hvammsvik), dedicated to building and maintaining the […]

Hvalfjarðarlaug

May 1, 2016.Reading time 3 minutes.

A perfect little remote hot pot, looking over the beautiful fjord

Respectful Camping

May 2, 2016.Reading time 9 minutes.

Check any travel guide, or campervan rental site, and you’ll very likely see some sort of notice that you can “camp anywhere” in Iceland, that there is a law that says you can camp wherever you want for one night. It’s free! It’s beautiful!

Clothes for Early May

May 2, 2016.Reading time 9 minutes.

Spring in Iceland is likely to have all the weather — sometimes even in the same day. (“If you don’t like the weather, wait 10 minutes!”, we heard dozens of times). So – what to wear? The answer? Layers. Of course.

Hraunfossar

May 2, 2016.Reading time 2 minutes.

Hraunfossar (“lava falls”) is a wide set of multiple waterfalls over the multi-colored lava flows, near Húsafell. Unlike many of the waterfalls in Iceland, Hraunfossar doesn’t come from a raging river — instead, it pours out from the porous lava underneath moss-covered hills.

Barnafoss

May 2, 2016.Reading time 2 minutes.

Barely a stone’s throw away from elegant Hraunfossar, Barnafoss (‘childrens falls”) churns and roils through the narrow canyon on the river Hvítá

Iceland: Day 3

May 2, 2016.Reading time 23 minutes.

Mark woke up early this morning, stumbled out of bed and dug out the coffee-making supplies. WHich is when he discovered that the bottled water we bought was sparkling water! Apparently it makes pretty decent coffee. Once you boil it, it loses its carbonation. I don’t drink the stuff, so I’ll take his word for […]

Favorite Movie

May 2, 2016.Reading time 3 minutes.

One of the reasons that Iceland even came up as a possible destination this spring was my love of the movie The Secret Life of Walter Mitty. The recent one, with Ben Stiller, not the original with Danny Kaye (although, Danny Kaye is a god and anything he did was transcendent, don’t get me wrong).