The Golden Circle Tour

I did the Golden Circle tour today. It was probably about $100 USD but well worth it. We went all over the place, from the smelly sulphery geothermal plant that pumps all of the water for Reykjavik INTO the city to the cheesy gift shop at the end where they screwed me on postage (because of this, all them postcards what come from Iceland will end up costing me about $4 USD apiece).

This is a picture of the site where Iceland´s first parliment was held. Lotsa history today. Iceland was founded in 930 A.D. Pretty funky huh?

Also, on a personal note, I was in a room with five very nice people last night and one jackass who snored ALL NIGHT LONG. Me and the three girls (all from Michigan and Ohio, what happened there??) in the room got ZERO sleep. I kept dozing off in the bus.

Cry me a river, as long as it looks like this :)

A huge ever-growing pulsating crater that rules from the centre of the ultraworld

Need I say more? If you don´t get the reference, don´t worry. Look at the colors - the water, the soil... one thing I can say about this place is that pictures will never do it justice. You have to see it for yourself.

Iceland´s famous The Blue Lagoon

If you´ve never swum in The Blue Lagoon, I highly recommend it. It´s a natural geothermal spa. That means it´s powered by volcanic activity, like much of Iceland.

Who was asking me why I wanted to come here again?

Reykjavik - Picture of sculpture near harbor

When I find out the name of the sculptor I promise to update it and give him or her credit.

Greenland from above

As promised.

I woke up in Reykjavik

Well, my days of practicing the language have paid off. I met a couple of people last night who were very hospitiable, and extremely impressed that I spoke the language at all. They never asked me to repeat anything, so I assume they either understood me or just didn´t care what I was saying. Either way, thað er flott (that´s cool).

I´m in a basement Internet cafe on the main drag, as far as I can tell. This place is much crunchier and less corporate than the one last night.

Tonight I´m headed to The Blue Lagoon. As this keyboard doesn´t seem to have an underscore character, I just had to hunt on the ´net to find a frigging underscore character so I could put that link in there. This is painful. Anyway The Blue Lagoon should be extremely cool. I think the hostel organizes trips from there, so I´ll just head back there no later than about 430 or 500 this evening. There doesn´t seem to be a colon on this keyboard either.

Outside, some people are singing their hearts out about smoking crack. They were just down here looking up the lyrics to said song. Now there´s an American girl looking for directions to some publishers. It turns out she worked for childrens´magazine, and she´s trying to get her book published. She wrote it and did illustrations for it.

This keyboard is kinda sucky and I forgot my damn cable again to dump those pictures, so I´ll leave it at this for the time being.

101 Reykjavik

I should probably retitle this blog, I Speak Icelandic Poorly. I finally got up the courage to talk to the stewardess on the flight over to Iceland and she couldn´t understand a word I said. Well, that´s not true, after i repeated myself she did understand me and I understood her answer.

I´m trying over here, and people are very friendly and patient. So far nothing massive has happened, went to the state store after walking from the first hostel thur center of town.

It´s cool because there are a lot of words I recognize when I´m listening to people speak, but there are a lot of other languages here...

Today´s highlight had to be flying over Greenland. I took some pretty amazing pictures. I´ll post them soon.