blindhæðir

A photographic retelling of the trip that sent me to the peak, no telling what I would meet on the other side. Iceland with a Sexy Swedish Babe in six and a half days: Reykjavik, Geysir, Kerið, Gulfoss, Vík, Jökulsárlón, Norðurfjörður, Holmavik, Djúpavík, Krossnes, and Blue Lagoon.

19 JUNE day one: geysir and frolicking in lupines which are everywhere, gulfoss and the wind and spray, horses, mosses, dust storms on rugged roads, puttering around reykjavik consuming as much skyr as possible.

20 JUNE day two: early to rise, set off for the black sand beach of Vík, then drive along the southern coast through lava fields, lupine fields, by the edges of glaciers all the way out to Jökusárlón, the lake at the base of the largest glacier in Europe, where icebergs collect and flow out to sea, we double back to Reykjavik in the same day with plans to stop by Skaftafell to see Svartifoss, which we had to skip as the road before us was long, and the hike to get there was also. Dinner in Vík and a darkness, fog and rain settled upon us for the final leg back to the city.

21 JUNE day three - Our last day at Hotel Cabin and we set off north towards the Vest Fjords, stopping here and there, thinking nothing can eclipse the grandeur of the South. We leave the ring road for route 61 and are greeted by quite rugged roadways. The weather in the vestfjords is quite pleasant, cool, with light showers inland and golden sunshine and puffy clouds out towards the ocean. Long stretches of countryside, farms and mountains, snowcapped mountains in the distance. We stop in Holmavik for the most impressive meal of the trip at Cafe Riis, refuel our car, make amends to revisit the town and set off for the last stretch to Djúpavík

The full story of the entire trip is available on my blog:

lasuzaki.blogspot.com/2009/10/blindhdir. html

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items are from between 16 Apr 2009 & 19 Jun 2009.