Posted 11:03 AM by Steini
Two days ago I came home from almost a two weeks´ travel with car around Iceland with my girlfriend Vigdis. After two days of driving through the south of Iceland and passing the sheer cliffs of the fjords in the East we entered Seydisfjordur. It is the "oppositemost" point in the country to Reykjavik and is the harbour which hatches a weekly bunch of tourists every Thursday with the arrival of the ferry Norrona. We drove into this huge brand-new eight floor mansion of a ferry and for a week we sailed to the Faroe Islands (related to Denmark) and the Shetlands (which are Scottish islands). We spent three days in the rugged Faroese and one day in pastoral Shetlands. It takes about twelve to fifteen hours to sail between any of these three points (Iceland, Faroe Islands and the Shetlands) so most of the rest of the time that week was spent on board the ferry, which caused our sense of balance to roll for a day after we came home to Iceland. A strange feeling indeed. Mild and sunny weather greeted us as we made our way back south to finish that grand tour of our own country. With no haste we leisurely crawled our way, spending three days tracing all kinds of loops to various curious places. All in all it was a very successful trip away from the bustle of the city with every single day standing out in some way as memorable.

more later,
Steini