Sunshine Day

This day out in Snæfellsjökull National Park was glorious. 22 hours of magnificent sunshine. One of the all-time great days. We’ll just let the pictures speak for themselves. And then the hammer came down. The next day it rained and the wind blew like nobody’s business. It kept us inside for most of the day. […]

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Glymur of Hope

A quick stop at a nice little waterfall and hiking area, just to warm up the legs and try out the efficacy of the rain gear. Of course, it stopped raining as soon as we got all dudded out but that’s to be expected and part of the trickstery weather deities in Iceland. But on […]

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A Tale of Two Pictures

On your big travel days, you’ve got to make the best of a lousy situation. You didn’t sleep at all the night before, it’s virtually 4am as you try to adjust to the new time zone, and oh what you wouldn’t give for your own bed right now for just a few hours! Sometimes that […]

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Midtsommer Madness

A quick post to officially mark the start of the Bliz 2017 Solstice Spectacular trip. The plans are to visit Iceland and Norway over the next three weeks and never encounter a dark sky once. It was ten years ago this week that Liz and Ben (later dubbed Bliz) visited Norway for the first time, […]

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