Iceland, the land of ice and fire – day 6

OMGeee…it’s been such a long time. I’ve been thinking about closing this space more than once, throughout these past few months. I’ve been on summer break for a week now, and for the first few days it took me a while to completely turn my mind off. It was an intense year. You see, when…

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Iceland, the land of ice and fire – day 5

How I missed this. On our 5th day in Iceland we woke up feeling very relaxed after having spent more than two hours floating in sulfur rich waters. The plan was to drive to Goðafoss waterfall and visit Akureyri a beautiful and small fishing city, full of colour out on the streets and trolls. Yes, trolls.…

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Iceland, the land of ice and fire – day 4.

On our fourth day we woke up pretty refreshed. We had breakfast available at the guesthouse we were staying in, and it was quite beautiful to eat a modest but plentiful breakfast, in a nice and warm place. I really dunno why I didn’t take pictures of the breakfast though… The day started off a…

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Iceland, the land of ice and fire – day 3, part 2

After the Fjadrargljufur canyon, I wanted to stop by the place where it was filmed the Game of Thrones bit for The Wall, so we wondered after Vatnajokull, Europe’s largest glacier. It was the peak of summer when we were there, so obviously there wasn’t as much snow as usual, but it was still freaking amazing! It’s quite…

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Iceland, the land of ice and fire – day 3, part 1.

Skógafoss was right next to our hotel, and we had only seen it from the ground, so we went back and climbed up to the top in order to get the full experience of one of the biggest waterfalls in Iceland. It’s 15m wide and has a 60m drop, and it used to fall to…

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