Instead of the usual broad play-by-play of the day, we’ll do a focused look at the Mardalsfossen, Northern Europe’s highest waterfall and just an overall good lookin’ piece. On our way in, we tracked it for the better part of an hour as we skirted the fjord-like-lake Eikesdalsvatnet, our home lake for the next two […]

Read More Portrait of a Waterfall

Woke up to bright sunshine on Sunday morning, after a good night’s sleep in the tent amidst occasional showers. It’s always pleasant to have light rain while camping, as long as it’s over by the time you have to pack up! Before we hit the road, we fueled up (gas and coffee) at the local […]

Read More To Trondheim

Woke up. Got out of bed. Realized it was 10:30 AM — woops! We’re sleeping really, really well lately. Not sure what’s going on but also not complaining. By the time we had our coffee and muesli it was ‘pert (or is it pert’?) near lunch time and we were headed down the big hill […]

Read More Trondheim

Yesterday we headed out with a loaner car from Geir and Grethe along with a fresh dose of confidence. We started on the E6 north for a few hours, bypassing a lot of beautiful countryside due lack of time.  We were headed to Rondane National Park, Norway’s oldest. After leaving the E6, we took a […]

Read More On the Road Again

Late last night and into this morning we took the red-eye out of Reykjavik and arrived in Oslo (with red eyes). We were thrilled to see Geir strolling towards us at the airport just as we cleared customs. After short drive to their flat, some hugs, and a quick bite to eat, Geir went to […]

Read More Return to Norway

Without the confluence of a both WiFi connection and the motivation to navigate the archaic way these blog posts are composed, we’ve started to go back and fill in some gaps. On Wednesday night, we popped in to a nice little campsite after our three day excursion to the Snæfellsnes Peninsula. For all practical purposes […]

Read More Reykjavik, You’re Out of Order!

A couple of shots from our cabin in Hellissandur. First we have sunset, somewhere around 12:30 am. We’d just gotten back from a late night hike around a volcano crater ridge. Then we have sunrise a couple hours later after 2:00 am, the sun moves just a bit to the north on the horizon as […]

Read More Midnight Sun

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. […]

Read More Sunshine Day

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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