Two weeks in another world
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).
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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 […]
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Barely a stone’s throw away from elegant Hraunfossar, Barnafoss (‘childrens falls”) churns and roils through the narrow canyon on the river Hvítá
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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.
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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.
Read MoreCheck 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!
Read MoreA perfect little remote hot pot, looking over the beautiful fjord
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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 […]
Read MoreThe rules are different everywhere — wait to be seated? find your own table? order all at once? What IS that on the menu in a foreign language you probably don’t speak well? Do you pay at the register? Do you tip? Is it normal to be left alone until you summon a waiter?
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The “whale fjord” — although we saw no whales — runs inland just north of Reykjavik and is an easy drive up from the city. We drove along the shore on our way to see Glymur, for which you will need your own car. The fjord is about 30km long, with a road tracing both […]
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