Month: June 2011
Helsinki
We arrived in Helsinki on mid-afternoon on Friday after a 3 hour flight from Reykjavik. We had a pretty early start having to leave our hotel at 5.00 am for the one hour transfer to the airport and be checked in for our 7.55 am flight. We were immediately struck with the extent of the […]
Read MoreIceland – South Coast Tour
Today, we had a visit to the south coast of Iceland. It was essentially the same tour that I did two years ago. The scenery was just as grand, although the weather was less sunny, but still quite nice. I am having trouble uploading my photos, so the best way of illustrating the scenery s […]
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Iceland – Reyjkavik
We had left our second day in Iceland to be able to explore the capital city of Reykjavik. It’s a small city, perhaps the size of Warrnambool Iceland has a population of about 320,000, of which nearly 200,000 live in the Reykjavik In fact, the southwestern region of the country is home to two-thirds of […]
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Iceland – Golden Circle Tour
We arrived in Reykjavik yesterday afternoon. We had driven from Edinburgh to Glasgow, which was an easy trip and arrived at the airport well ahead of our flight time at 2.20 pm. The only highlight of the trip was to see our first piece of Scottish road kill ( other than a few dead hedgehogs) […]
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