This is the list of “notes” covering our late August-September 2023 Viking Ocean Cruise to Canada, Greenland, and Iceland starting from New York City, USA and ending in Reykjavik, Iceland with three DIY days. The posts appear in reverse chronological order below.
Note 25 – Summary of Iconic Iceland, Greenland, and Canada 2023
We’ve been home a week, laundry is done and pretty much everything is put up until the next trip. I’ve caught up on mail and bills and the crazy amount of dust that settled in the house while we were…
Keep readingNote 24 – On Our Way Home
Reykjavik weather: Hi 54F, Rainy and Windy Houston weather: Hi 90F, Afternoon Storms And just like that, we were headed to the airport to fly home. We’ve seen and experienced so much on this trip and the last few days…
Keep readingNote 23 – Golden Circle – Reykjavik Day 3
Expected weather: Hi 52F, Rainy Population: 138,875 (city) / 248,000 (Region) / 352,721 Disclosure: Writing this from my notes, pictures, and memory a couple of days after returning home. Another 8am start with Your Day Tours again, this time for…
Keep readingNote 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…
Keep readingNote 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…
Keep readingNote 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…
Keep readingNote 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…
Keep readingNote 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…
Keep readingNote 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…
Keep readingNote 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…
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Notes By Nancy 