Is there anybody out there?????

I´m back from the whalewatching, cold to the bone!!!
(and I walked around in a t shirt earlier today)
We didn´t see than much unfortunately, some puffins and a few minke whales ( but they don´t show their fluke)
oh well can´t have it all haha

hi siets
good to hear from you, sounds like you had a great time, you know how much l'd have loved to have come with you. bet its amazing, enjoy yourself x

sounds like a great time siets despite the cold! better luck next time on the whale front!

Peeing it down outside today here - boo hiss!!! Think we had summer in June LOL!!

well it´s stiull dry in Reykjavik!! so far so good and the weather seems to be good in the southpart anyuway ( for the icelandic standarts!) well I´ll be off today to do major shopping and walking. I need alot of exercize as I haven´t been doing anything at all for the last couple of months ( ecxept from working)
so I will walk some miles today!!

Tomorrow I´ll leave very early in the morning for a 12 hour trip and they will drop me off in the next hotel. I don´t tyhink they´ll have internet overthere ( they just have a connection for free everywhere and they expect you to bring your own laptop.) So I´ll be back tonight and than I might be off for some time!

Ive decided maybe we can do Iceland one day instead of the UK lol

Glad u are having a good time hun, miss u tho

xx

ha, l would LOVE to do Iceland(after NY!)

I´ll be glad to guide you around, I know the best places, trust me!


BTW...I have been for ages in the christmas shop....it´s sooooonice!!

Yes l will defo use you as my tour guide, and you will need to take me to the Christmas shop, l love my gifts from there

funny you should say that we are having trouble with a lot of mothers we have supplied to a campany called Thermal Transfer and they are in Icelend, I offered my services to go funnily enough they said no !!

Oooh, I would love to go to Iceland and go hiking Siets!!!

And yes, you'd be my tour guide for sure!! Maybe we could have MG Army tour??

Is the hiking easy or hard??

BTW, it's Freeeeeezing here in Oz - coldest winter for 50 years or sommat - there is a FREEEEEEEZING wind - it's -1 degrees where I live - and our house is FREEZING - well the part where the bedrooms and PC are - it's the old bit and it's 102 years old so all the cold comes in the cracks!! The rest of the house is warm. I might sleep in the kitchen tonight!!

did you sleep in the kitchen then!? hope you're wrapped up warm!! It peeeed it down all day yesterday here so we got soaked picking up a friends daughter from school! Was fun jumping in all the puddles though hee hee!

happy to say the sun has returned today though so my garden needs some attention lol!

hello!!


Okay I´m about to bore you with my icelandic stories, as I´m stuck at a dull busterminal in Reykjavik. They forgot to mention to the operator here, that I was arriving today so there was no key to the appartment waiting form me. I just have to wait 3 long hours and watch my luggage all the time while I´m using the internet..

Fliss..the hikes are a seasy and as rough as you would like, the´s plenty to hike up here! So did you sleep in the kitchen?

Karen...the sun is out here all day thank goodness, the wind is chilly but than again, a perfectly clear sky!

so...the story of siets in iceland so far... I went to a place in the southcoast in Iceland called Hveragerði. There´s a lovely hotel nearby where I slept for 2 nights. It´s part of the stable, and everything is horseminded (I slept on Hastens bed, and yes they are as good as they tell ( made of horsehair), the next day after I had a good rest I hiked in the area for 8 hours. I felt every mustle in my body afterwards but it was so worth it! I hiked my way up all the way to the mountains, and ended up in an area that is called Reykjadalur...which means smokey slope or soemthing like that. It was 22 degrees, and hat is hot for here and the hike was just perfect. There was a huge waterfall along the trail and futher in the mountains, the trail followed a small river ( just a little to wide to jump over it) and the water in that river was very clear, but hot! that is soooo strange! so imagine... a steamy river in the middle of a grassland full with mountainflowers...so pretty. At one point I had to cross the river, so ofcourse without shoes...it was like a very hot bath. It seemed that the temperature had rise up 10 degrees after the earthquake. well anyway after I had enough of the scenery the hot river and the horsprings and the mudholes ( they made funny noises that somethimes scared me) I went back. BTW.. because of the earthquake last may...lots of things are changing, there are loads of new mudpools and everything is very active. In 2000 there was a huge earthquake and that made the geysir working again and after that Mount Hekla erupted as well, they expect that to happen soon aswell. ( mt Hekla erupts every 5 to 10 years...so 8 years is very well on time)....just keep in mind that I had been up to the summit of mt Helka just the other day...brrrrr! that quite scared me. They still can´t predict an eruption, just half an hour before.
Anyway back to the hotel I had a very long chat with a lovely woman from Cheshire. We talked the night away ( wich is easily done, while the sun doesnt set...) we might travel together another time, we have a lot of the same interests.
anyway...I moved to a guesthouse as the hotel was fully booked, and that made me go to the place where a huge mudhole just appered out of the blue during the eruption, it was in my backyard...It´s very fascinating to see such a things, but than again it frightens me very much. In the small town itself, there was hot steam coming out of pavement, out of gardens, everywhere you looked, and the huge crack was just 50 meters away from me. When I walked up there, there were new hot area´s everywher, it´s strange to see the burned grass ( and the smell is horrifying!) can you imaging that out f the blue a hotspot appears under a few trees? They are dead now ofcourse, but it freaked me out! the trail I was walking on was actually hot! I just made my way out of there, there´s nothing wrong with using some common sence...it made me realize what is just underneath me.
And than there are people who walk off the trails just to have a very close look in the mudpools....than again...where there´s a lot of gass, there´s a lot of air, so the surface you´re walking on is very fragile and thin.
Spoke to a gilf for a very long time that lived there, she sad it was very clever of me to get out of there. She´s so fed up with living with this, she wanted to move.

well so far so good, I´m still here and I just have to wait another 1,5 hours, so I´ll manage.
Sorry if I bored you, but hey it gave me something to do

wow i'm glad you did share all that with us cos it sounds an absolutely amazing place. Hope the rest of the airport wait flew by for you!

woohoo I made it to the apartment after an argue with the local agent, he wasn´t pleased to find out I was coming over today, instead of tomorrow....he wasn´t angry with me though but with the company that forgot to mention it...
anyway I´m back in Reykjavik and >I´ll have to keep myself occupied until tomorrow afternoon. On sunday my groop will arrive and then I´m on the road again, and than I won´t have acces to internet for another two weeks, so I try to catch uo now.
it´s great to red all the things as I´m very bored...

That was a great read, but am l right to be scared for you, arent you worried about all the earthquakes etc?
Have you gone back to the Christmas shop yet?! hee hee