As I said in the last post, I got no sleep. Around 4:25, I picked up my stuff and walked from Gulla’s to the long-distance bus station, maybe 10 minutes’ walk away. It was easy to then just jump onto the first airport service and drop into a fairly deep slumber. I awoke as we [...]

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Just a quickie. I will update with full details of the last 2 days in Iceland when I get the chance, but I’m currently safely ensconced in the Copenhagen Central Library using their free wi-fi. I’m off to meet a fellow couchsurfer in 30 minutes, and my host at 9:30 tonight. I think I will [...]

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There wasn’t a whole lot left of the capital for me to see, so I had a bit of a lie in (I needed it!) and met Elfa to see the last few things. We walked up to the church which this time was open. It’s very plain inside compared to just about any other [...]

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The weather was particularly unsavoury this morning. As I left the apartment, the wind threatened to remove my cap for me and – not wanting any Indiana Jones-like near-escapes grabbing it from in front of an approaching truck – I gave up and took it off. Definitely the windiest and coldest I’d been since I [...]

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I just uploaded the following video of yesterday’s stroll around Reykjavik to YouTube. Do enjoy! If you can’t see the embedded video for whatever reason, then hop along to the actual blog page (if you can’t see it in RSS feed) or the full YouTube page where you can vote on it and make me [...]

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After a good sleep on a comfy couch, I was up at the crack of dark (9am) to a breakfast of Icelandic yoghurt. I sat and chatted to Ricardo for a while before he had to leave for a job interview. My only aim for the day was to have a KFC for lunch. Apart [...]

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The country that forgot to pay the bill for the daylight they use. Hence why it’s dark pretty much all the time at the moment. Brightness peaks around midday, and even then it’s equivalent to roughly 15:30 in the UK at present. I got to bed at the hostel around 4am. I woke up a [...]

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Or 39 if you’re including the UK. At least I think so. I hope I’m not losing count. I should make it to 42 by summer! The short flight from Glasgow to Keflavik was uneventful and smooth, and when I landed I thought we’d gone round in a circle. It was dark and raining – [...]

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Oops. I just booked a one-way flight to Reykjavik, Iceland on January 4th. As you do. Well, with their economy going up the fritz (the Icelandic Krona dropped to about half it’s value against the pound last week) and almost everyone I know who’s been there declaring it a wonderful place it made sense to [...]

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