It was all worth it
October 18, 2009 at 9:46 pm | Posted in 3 girls own adventure, artworks, weather | Leave a commentOur destination was the tiny town of Stykkisholmur to see an at installation by Roni Horn entitled “Library of water“. Set in an old Library over looking the town, all thoughts of the drive vanished. It was glorious.
birds
October 18, 2009 at 3:17 pm | Posted in 3 girls own adventure | Leave a comment
On the shore of lake Myvatn at Ytri-Neslond is the Sigurgeir Steffansson Bird Museum which is in a vrey new building and is a quite extraordinary collection of birds. Lake Myvatn is dotted with many islets and rock formations and is exceptionally shallow, and more speices of duck are said to breed at this site than anywhere else in the world.
see http://icelandreview.com/features/nature_and_travel/?ew_news_onlyarea=&ew_news_onlyposition=10&cat_id=16568&ew_10_a_id=338396 for the story
beauty
October 18, 2009 at 10:10 am | Posted in 3 girls own adventure, beauty, snow | Leave a comment
next stop Krafla
October 18, 2009 at 9:49 am | Posted in 3 girls own adventure | Leave a commentWe wanted to get to Krafla which is a caldera of about 10 km in diameter with a 90 km long fissure zone. It also has the Krafla Geothermal Power station on the road to the volcano.
But the road dissapeared beneath the snow so we had to stop at the power station.
those crazy japanese
October 18, 2009 at 9:37 am | Posted in 3 girls own adventure, food, myvantn | Leave a commentTake 2 japanese boys, a fumarole, some eggs and what have you got?
BOILED EGGS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
the best breakfast
October 18, 2009 at 8:37 am | Posted in 3 girls own adventure, food, myvantn | Leave a commentThe guest house was empty except for us, but was very comfortable. see http://www.elda.is/. Carolina cooked us a beautiful meal and we were in bed early after a huge day.
After a great sleep, we awoke to the most amazing beakfast ever. Fresh bread baked overnight, cereal, fish, smoked salmon, egg, jams, cheese, tomato and cucumber, ham. We stuffed ourselves. And then set off over the mountain.
a place to stay
October 17, 2009 at 10:41 pm | Posted in 3 girls own adventure, beauty, steam | Leave a commentWe find a nice guest house in Reykjahlid and get our things ready for a dip in the famous pools.
our little car blends right in
October 17, 2009 at 10:33 pm | Posted in 3 girls own adventure | Leave a comment
snoring
October 17, 2009 at 9:29 pm | Posted in 3 girls own adventure, from others, just stuff | Leave a comment“But of all the morning’s time signals the most reliable were his father’s snores.
At dawn when the boy awoke, he would still be snoring with long, long, deep, deep snores. This kind really belonged not to morning but to the night itself. These snores bore no relation to the world we live and wake in; they were an alien excursion over tilted space, immeasurable time, extravagant existences; yes, the horses of this cavalcade had little in common with the horses of our world, and still less was the landscape of the snoring life akin to the landscape of the day.
But as morning came nearer, his father’s snores gradually lost their resonance, the resounding chest-notes dissolved on a slowly ascending scale, moved by degrees into the throat, from the throat into the nose and mouth, on to the lips with a whistle, sometimes only with a restless puff – the destination was near, the horses prancing with the joy of traversing scatheless the sounding wastes of infinity. The homeland lay spread before the eyes.
The breathing of the others lacked altogether the range and magnificence of his father’s snores, and was, morever, heedless of time. “
from Independent People by Halldor Laxness
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