RDU
19. Juni 2023 in den USA ⋅ 🌧 22 °C
Erpsstaðir Creamery
20. Juni 2023 in Island ⋅ ☁️ 5 °C
Homemade skyr, cheeses, ice cream, and we met the cows and saw other sights and sites along the way.
Árblik Community Center
20. Juni 2023 in Island ⋅ ☁️ 14 °C
Lunch of meat soup and fresh bread, pancakes (like crêpes) with sugar, and coffee. Charming gift shop with items made my nursing home residents.
Arctic Fox Center
20. Juni 2023 in Island ⋅ ☁️ 3 °C
City pup met Arctic fox who was rescued! The fox is the only native land animal in Iceland!
Hotel Ísafjörður
20. Juni 2023 in Island ⋅ ☁️ 4 °C
View from my room and a pic from town. We walked to Siver Kebab for falafel and schwarma.
University Centre of the Westfjords
21. Juni 2023 in Island ⋅ ☁️ 3 °C
Learned about community development, energy transitions, quality of life, place attachment in avalanche-risk small and remote communities, justice and equity- small scale fisheries, environmentalWeiterlesen
Isfjördur Primary School
21. Juni 2023 in Island ⋅ ☁️ 5 °C
Hvers Museum - Hversdagssafn
21. Juni 2023 in Island ⋅ ⛅ 7 °C
Museum of Everyday Life
tjöruhúsið restaurant
21. Juni 2023 in Island ⋅ ☁️ 7 °C
Bolafjall
22. Juni 2023 in Island ⋅ ☀️ 7 °C
Trip on the bus up a mountain for some spectacular views!
Vigur Island
22. Juni 2023 in Island ⋅ ☁️ 10 °C
Inhabited by a family 3 people who protect and make their living in this sanctuary with eider (ducks), arctic terns, puffins, and others.
Whales!
22. Juni 2023 in Island ⋅ ☁️ 11 °C
Just off the side of our boat between destinations- totally unplanned and unexpected. The captain said there were around 15! Video is mine, photos by Anne Schaefer!
Hornstrandir Nature Reserve
22. Juni 2023 in Island ⋅ ☀️ 9 °C
Hesteyri abandoned village, more wildlife and folklore, dinner and music at the “old doctor’s house.”
Reisender
Icelanders show their well deserved pride in their place with the beautiful and loving way they caretake it.
Dynjandi Waterfall
23. Juni 2023 in Island ⋅ ☁️ 12 °C
ReisenderSo much beautiful perfectly falling water all around your Iceland trips.
Vegamót Restaurant
23. Juni 2023 in Island ⋅ 🌧 14 °C
Látrabjarg
23. Juni 2023 in Island ⋅ 🌬 13 °C
Largest bird cliff in Europe, westernmost point in Iceland, home to puffins, northern gannets, guillemots, and razorbills- 40% of the WORLD’s population of some species!
Raudisandur
23. Juni 2023 in Island ⋅ 🌧 14 °C
Stykkishólmur
24. Juni 2023 in Island ⋅ ☁️ 10 °C
Cool stop at a lava field. Another village walkabout, happy hot and dinner at Narfeyrarstofa Restaurant.
Reisender
What is more beautiful? The scenery or you in it? For that matter what’s more delicious? The fish and potatoes on that plate or you?
Kirkjufellsfoss
24. Juni 2023 in Island ⋅ ☁️ 10 °C
Church Mountain too
Ludvik Karlsson Liston
24. Juni 2023 in Island ⋅ ☁️ 12 °C
Brilliant artist- every piece tells a story.
Grundarfjörður
24. Juni 2023 in Island ⋅ ☁️ 12 °C
Newest technology in fish processing, harbor, charming fishing village. We met the pastor of the Lutheran church.
Sönghellir
25. Juni 2023 in Island ⋅ ☁️ 9 °C
Amazing acoustics and views!
Djúpalónssandur
25. Juni 2023 in Island ⋅ ☁️ 10 °C
Hellnar
25. Juni 2023 in Island ⋅ ☁️ 10 °C
Nature walk- not as flat and even terrain as advertised, but spectacular! Walked all the way back to the hotel for lovely seafood soup. 4.2 miles today!
Lýsuhólslaug
25. Juni 2023 in Island ⋅ 🌧 10 °C
Geothermal algae pools, so no pictures of us, only one from the website. Lucky you! Drawing by Anya Rose
ReisenderIs there an Icelandic version of Sweeney Todd where Sweeney runs a spa, and Mrs. Lovett makes fish pies? Sweeney gets them half cooked in the spa and Mrs. Lovett finishes the job?
ReisenderThe look on your faces yesterday. The attitudes you were both carrying about your upcoming journey. It all reminded me of the Talking Heads. “And you may find yourself in another part of the world… And you may find yourself behind the wheel of a large automobile And you may find yourself in a beautiful house, with a beautiful wife And you may ask yourself, well how did I get here?” You are both living proof that life is so wonderfully unpredictable.