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Day 4 – Iceland to Helsinki – Midsummer
Today started early, again. 4 AM alarm, got dressed, checked out, and into the car. We negotiated the rather quiet and slightly familiar streets back to the highway to the airport. There were hardly any cars, but there were some roadworks at 4:30AM! Good time to do them, no one about. Dropped off the car,…
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Day 3 – Iceland
Even the town drunk speaks English We had finally started getting onto GMT, and woke after 7, without an alarm. Today was spent around Reykjavik. First stop was the Leifer Erricson monument out the front of Hall church. They have a lift to take you up 8 stories in the bell tower. Much easier than…
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Day 2 – Skaftafelljökull, Iceland
It’s only a 700km round trip. Day two started early again. Awake before 7 without an alarm. Breakfast, gear check, and we headed off again. Down the same tourist route, but this time along the southern coast towards some more waterfalls and a glacier or two.
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Day 1 – Iceland – I knew that was a Thorn!
After about 12 hours (of well needed) sleep we both woke up well before breakfast was to be served in the hotel so we headed off for a wander down to the front. The sun was bright and warm, but I very quickly regretted not grabbing my jacket, the wind off the ocean was freezing.…
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Day 0 – Singapore Helsinki Copenhagen Reykjavik
Iceland is about as far from Melbourne as you can get. Today/yesterday/a week last Tuesday started early, 5AM early. After getting the bags into the car we headed off to the airport. I was supposed to fly into Melbourne today, but the flight to Singapore had been bumped up by 3 hours so I came…