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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 gone (thanks to help from Dave, too!). I got Mom caught up with updates on…
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Note 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 have been jam packed. But, of course, we must have one final adventure on the…
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Note 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 the famous “Golden Circle” tour. Per YDT’s website description: we stop at all the main…
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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…
Notes By Nancy 