September 2023
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Note 19 – Glacial Lagoon – Djúpivogur, Iceland
Expected weather: Hi 48F, Showers Seas: Calm Population: 509 / 352,721 This is an even smaller place than yesterday, so tendering again and we selected the Viking optional full-day “FJALLSÁRLÓN ICE LAGOON BY ZODIAC” excursion. This is one of the few times where I was convinced that the hours on the bus would be worth…
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Note 18 – Snow Day? – Seyðisfjörður
Expected weather: Hi 41F / Low 30F, Showers, light snow Seas: Calm – Moderate Population: 676 / 352,721 This is my favorite town name to pronounce – and here we go again… under 1000 population is a “village”, perhaps? If all the passengers and crew of Viking Saturn were to disembark here, we’d triple the…
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Note 17 – Fire and Ice – Akureyri
Expected weather: Hi 44F / Low 32F, Showers Seas: Rough to Moderate Population: 19,219 / 352,721 Akureyri is Iceland’s largest city outside the capital region of Reykjavik – although I don’t know if it would qualify as a “city” in Texas, more like a “town”! It is nicknamed the “Capital of the North” and there…
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Note 16 – Westfjords and Majestic Waterfalls – ĺsafjördur, Iceland
Expected weather: Hi 50F / Low 42F, Rain 61% Seas: Moderate Population: 2,744 / 352,721 We have arrived in Iceland! And, yes, that is the town’s population as well as the country of Iceland’s total population. ĺsafjördur is the 13th largest town in Iceland. We have 7 cities in Texas alone that have larger populations…
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Note 15 – Eat, Blog, Repeat – Sea Day 4
Expected weather: Hi 50F, Mostly Cloudy, Foggy Seas: Moderate We are getting the hang of sea days. Today we are sailing the Atlantic Ocean. Per the captain’s Noon report, the sea temp and the air temp are both 50F today, and we will experience moderate seas increasing to 7-8 feet, plus increasing winds. At Noon…
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Note 14 – Serendipity – Prince Christian Sound
Expected weather: Hi 43F, Rainy Seas: Calm I did not originally realize that we’d have this sailing experience when we left Nanortalik for Iceland until we went to the port talk a couple of days ago. What an incredible afternoon we had yesterday! We left the rain behind in Nanortalik and had beautiful sunlit vistas…
Notes By Nancy 