Monday, 13th August 2012 Vik (black sand beach, cliffs and puffins) – glacier – Dyrhólaey (cliffs and puffins) – Skógafoss (waterfall) – Grafarvogslaug Reykjavik (swimming pools) I have had an amazing but exhausting day. I don’t even know where to begin, there were too many highlights. I chose today to do my big drive as […]
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Wednesday, 15th August 2012 Stykkishólmur (harbour town) – Ytri-Tunga (beach with seals) Another fantastic day in Iceland. All went to plan and I drove to Stykkishólmur, about 180km away. As usual, it took longer than it should have taken because I kept stopping to either gawp in wonder or to take photographs. It’s not a
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Sunday, 12th August 2012 Reykjavik: beach swimming – graffiti – Penis Museum – flea market – Sea Baron (best lobster soup in the world) I awoke at about 6am, having slept from about 10pm, nothing short of a miracle in my sleeping world. I felt very sleepy still. At 7am, I decided to get up
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Sunday, 19th August 2012 Reykjavik I hadn’t planned to write anything today as I didn’t think I’d do much on my last morning, but I think I can eke out a small post. I got up, had breakfast and finished packing. By this point I’d decided that I would have my final swim, the ninth
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Route: Calais – Epernay – Langres – Dijon – Mâcon – Brignais (Lyon) – Pérouges – Lyon – Clermont-Ferrand – Volvic – Le Compas – Sermur – Bellegarde-en-Marche – La Feuille du Limousin (goat cheese farm) – Bourganeuf – St-Leonard-de-Noblat – Limoges – Chauvigny – Angles-sur-L’Anglin – Cheverny – Cour-Cheverny – Tours – Orbec –
Overall thoughts – Accommodation – Travelling around/orientation – Things to do – Lunch and dinner – Cafe Overall thoughts Brief: crazy traffic, lots of pipping, dirty, noisy, feels poor, not touristy at all, some nice large parks/green space, hectic train station, lots of buses, no obvious centre of city beyond Mega mall, cheaper than Almaty
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