Category Archives: Iceland

Despite extensive travel over the past 11 years on 4 continents I have never before felt like I had entered a fantasy novel.  (Well, except for being fairly convinced that if fairies did exist they had a kingdom in the …
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The dangers of Iceland’s roads include nails, screws, pot holes and Icelandic drivers themselves. But surprisingly none of these compare to the beady eyed master of ambush most commonly thought of as a sheep. Especially for the motorcyclist. Sure, if …
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I fear I have succumbed to assimilation.  When I first arrived in Germany it was suppose to be short term, just a trial run so to say, in order to see if me and the German would work out.  Plus …
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Even without the scary tourist information man’s speech of the impending doom that awaits all those who dare venture into the badlands of Iceland’s interior, the place had already been hyped to us by guidebooks as an isolated, only for …
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