Flight Of The Bumblebee

Last Few Days

2008-06-19T05:19:00.000-07:00

Last few pix cos I'm running out of minutes!

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Check out the desterted German beach.......they wanted me to pay to have a paddle in the sea, I told them to bugger offen!

Currently in Norway in a little town called Kristiansand which is the sunniest place in Norway except for today when it has pissed down!

Baltic Cruise Episode 2

2008-06-16T06:15:00.000-07:00

More pix.... (click on linx)

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Today is a Sea day and I have done mostly nothing! ;-)

Baltic Cruise Episode 1

2008-06-15T06:16:00.000-07:00

Sat in the Crows Nest with a beer on my laptop.

Here's the cruise so far.....
(click on links to get pix)

Leaving Southampton

First formal night

Copenhagen 1 2 3 4

Stockholm 1 2 3

Tallinn 1 2 3 4 5 6

St Petersburg 1 2 3

Helsinki 1 2 3

Thats it for now cos the battery in the laptop needs some juice or beer or whatever the hell it runs on! ;-)

Last Day :-(

2008-01-03T12:48:00.000-08:00

Last day here in Iceland :-(

Got up early-ish (ie before 9am) the boys went off to fix the hire car and I stayed in the room doing the washing up and some packing.

After that we headed off out to Vik which is down in the Southern part of Iceland and apprently is the rainiest city.

Well it rained, all the way there and all the way back!

We stopped off at a waterfall on the way there and got soaked but was well worth it, the scenery is amazing even in the rain.
Saw a glacier from afar, tried to drive closer to it but the road came to a bit of halt at a dodgy bridge that we didn't dare risk the hire car on.
After taking a quick look at the beach at Vik (which is black due to the volcanic sands) we went to see how close we could get to another glacier.

We got about 3 miles up the glacier "road" and then had to stop, this was about 2 miles after we had passed the Impassable road sign ;-) we never learn!

Will post a few pix but no film til I get back cos everything is packed away.

Some foss or other

Johnie and the foss ;-)

The Ford has Escaped on the beach at Vik

Beach front appartments at Vik ;-)

The black beach at Vik

Vix on the beach at Vik ;-)

The impassable road, damn those Icelandics! they're right again!

Mars

More pix from Mars ;-)

Theres a glacier up here somewhere!

Behind a random foss

A glacier in the distance

We did try to get closer to this but the road disapeared into the run off from the glacier so we gave up otherwise we'd still be there, lost in Iceland ;-)

Skyr.is = Very Nice

2008-01-03T01:33:00.000-08:00

Film from the other day, including the Impassable Road, Gulfoss & Geysir

Note the steaming fields, they look like a scene out of Dr Who, you'd expect the Cyber Men to come walking long.

Madness

2008-01-02T14:00:00.000-08:00

New Years Eve Icelandic styleeeee

Vodka & Orange, The Way Forward!

2008-01-02T13:07:00.000-08:00

So it's been a couple of days since the last post!

Spent yesterday afternoon at the Blue Lagoon, that has to be the weirdest New Years day I've ever had.

Sunday we went to Gulfoss and the geysir with the steaming fields, also had a run in with the impassable road but thats another story and another film ;-)

New Years eve was also pretty strange, we went out around 10.30pm but apprently the whole of Iceland goes to watch a tv programme then and so the streets were deserted then suddenly at around 11.30pm people just arrived from everywhere and started letting off fireworks in all directions!

The Bonfires were cancelled though due to the high winds, they did however light a could up last night.

Anyway enough of the crap here's a few photo's from the last few days, later on I'll post some more bad film on YouTube and link it here.

Click pix to make them bigger

Blue Lagoon

Road Trip to.........somewhere

One of the better roads ;-)

No cars, but you're ok in a 4x4

Pronounce that!

We managed to stumle apon a couple of waterfoss's ;-)

It's Oh So Quiet

2007-12-31T01:05:00.000-08:00

It's New Years Eve

It's 9am

It's dark

It's snowing

All the cars sound like they are riding around on buble wrap (the sound of the studded tyres on the road)

We are gonna try and make our way out to Gulfoss today which has a very large water fall and a geysir.

At some point this evening they light bonfires all over Reykjavik and then at midnight every man and his dog and his cat and the cats mother sets off fireworks.

This is Reykjavik at 9am

This will most likely be my last post of the year so Happy New Year to everyone!

Will Someone Do Something About The Weather!

2007-12-30T12:06:00.000-08:00

I've forgotten my bloody waterproof trousers!

By the looks of it I will be needing them tomorrow evening for going to various New Years eve bonfires and such like.

Weather has been utterly shite here today, we took a walk out this afternoon to the big shopping place, didn't realize quite how far it was, got soaked getting there and soaked coming back.

Not sure what we're up to tomorrow, just waiting for the boys to decide.

Horrizontal Rain

2007-12-30T02:29:00.000-08:00

It's 10.30am, its dark, its raining and its windy!

Not sure what we're gonna do today as weather is pretty shite might just have a brief look around Reykjavik.

Here's yesterdays film!

Click on the play logo in the middle of the screen, its small cos YouTube compresses files too much.

Land Of The Midnight Night

2007-12-29T11:27:00.000-08:00

Up at 8am this morning, pitch black outside.
Wandered up one of the main streets to see if the supermarket was open at 9.30am and there was no one about!

Anyway then we headed off on a 238km tour of various snowy roads in Iceland, originaly heading for Gulfoss we didn't get there cos the road was impassable (see pix later) we're gonna try again later in the week.

Have made pix small, just click to enlarge.

If your lucky there might be some crap film later if I can figure out how to get it off the camera.

John in the frozen wastes about 10am this morning

The Ford 'Escape' ;-)

Red sky in the morning well...11am

Some rocks & snow

Some more snow, the ongoing theme of the day!

Lokad <-- Iclandic for Closed ;-)

The Ford Escape in all its glory

Effin cold!

Slush Puppy River

White water rafting anyone?

Effin cold part deux!

A steamy thing up a very big hill, we later found out its apower station and it stinks of sulfur!

No idea!

Welcome to wherever we are!

jus When You Thought It Was Safe To Look At The Internet

2007-12-28T12:20:00.000-08:00

More pix, captions are above this time (blogger is hard work!)

Arsing abount on a big pile of snow ;-)

Some big church up a big hill ;-)

Is it a cat or a snow devil?

Random birds!

Is it a lake?

This one is for Will and Mother..... I bet it doesn't leak!!! ;-)

The Eagles Have Landed

2007-12-28T07:49:00.000-08:00

Flight over was good, left 45mins late due to traffic on the runway!

Got here to find it about -5C and snow all over the place

(Click on pix to make them large)

Car park at the airport

Just gone 12pm in said car park

Our snowmobile....erm sorry I meant hire car ;-)

En route from Keflavik (airport) to Reykjavik about 1pm-ish

Reykjavik at about 1.30pm

Room with a view, they seem to be building alot!

Healthy living is the way forward ;-)

Bedroom looking like a tip....aaahh just like home.

Pasta a la Iceland.

Twas The Night Before Iceland And All Thru The House.....

2007-12-27T11:26:00.000-08:00

All packed, I think!

Did a last minute dash to the sales today and got a few bargains, a fleece and some thermal bottoms should finish off the artic expedition clothing nicely!

Latest weather can be found HERE

We are going to be based on the bottom left sticky out bit which is Reykjavik and its surrounding area.

Those of you not familiar with how blogs work.....the most recent post is first on the page and then they go down the page in date order.
On the right you should find the date and then the post titles under that date ;-)

The Land Of Fire & Ice

2007-12-25T10:41:00.000-08:00

Welcome to my new blog.

The other one is still going but this one is going to be devoted to any traveling I do.

It's insipred by our forthcoming trip to Iceland.

Here you will find pix and random comments.

Obviously I haven't left yet so there won't be alot happening until Friday!

Current weather in Reykjavik:

BBC Weather