Travel
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Note 22 – South Coast Adventure – Reykjavik Day 2
Expected weather: Hi 54F, Mostly Cloudy Population: 138,875 (Reykjavik) / 248,000 (Region) / 352,721 Disclosure: I’m writing this on the plane going home two days after the fact. Today we were to be picked up at our respective hotels around 8am for a small group tour of the South Coast with Your Day Tours. Their…
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Note 21 – Please, Check Your Luggage Tag! – Reykjavik Day 1
Expected weather: Hi 53F, Cloudy Population: 138,875 (city) / 248,000 (Region) / 352,721 (Country) Our journey with Viking is sadly over and we disembarked after one last breakfast. We headed to our hotels (long story how we ended up at separate hotels that I won’t go into here), checked in, left our bags, and met…
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Note 20 – Fire Hill – Westman Islands (Heimaey), Iceland
Expected weather: Hi 49F, Partly Cloudy Seas: Calm\Moderate Population: 4500 / 352,721 We awoke to a beautiful day and another interesting excursion. Now at our final port, we took the Viking included excursion “HEIMAEY ON FOOT”. This was another tender port as a volcanic eruption which occurred from January-June 1973 significantly reduced the width of…
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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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