Today was another long trip, mainly because I made it that. Without any detours and stops the journey from Hella to Grindavik only takes one hour 40 minutes. For activities I had two options. Either going a bit off my planned route to visit Haifoss, another waterfall or to track

New day new locations to see and this day got started by a trip to Icelands most important place, historically and culturally with a bit of geology to add to the mix (although that last part holds true for most of this country). The place in question is Þingvellir national

I swear, in my mind the title makes perfect sense

In fact, I had found three different outlet glaciers of the Vatnajökull glacier on my way to my next destination. All three glaciers go up the the same icecap, the Vatnajökull.A friendly heads-up to all readers, this post will contain pretty much all facts that today's tour

Today's trip from Myvatn to Egilsstaðir was among the longer ones of this journey, so there wasn't room for many activities along the way (there would have been one or two opportunities but nothing that would have allowed me to arrive at my next destination at

After writing the first blog entry for day 8 and having dinner, I felt the urge to go for a walk and fortunately enough, my hotel even took care of that. Right across the road from my hotel, there is a wonderful geological feature that appears to be a pond

Today's trip lead me the rather short way from Akureyri to Myvatn (for some reason the n is silent). Although short, this trip turned out quite eventful. In that order today's activities included, watching a waterfall, driving up a volcano, climbing a volcano, watching the earch

Before I get into the meaning behind the title, let's start with an important observation about this day (actually two but the first of them is a bit overshadowed by the second). As a look on the map told me, my stay in Sauðárkrókur was my northern-most overnight-stay

Well, not really, compared to other upcoming stints, the 3,5h trip from Reykjavik to Stykkisholmur is average. It also depends which part of the journey this statement should cover. As for the aforementioned part from Reykjavik to my next hotel in Stykkisholmur (sorry, no idea how to pronounce this