Barren landscape – Renegade Writings

Long drive and glaciers

We left Vik this morning and drove out into the ever changing, ever spectacular Icelandic landscape. Due to the rain, we only made a few stops to look at the scenery and quickly made it to Skaftafell national park.

Yini dancing in the rain during a short stop to look at the scenery
Yini jumping, in the background fields of volcanic sand.
Us and the volcanic sand fields, with our car in the background
Not sure why this thing is sticking up from the ground here

Skaftafell is an outlier of Vatnajökull, one of the worlds biggest glaciers. Due to … Read the rest

Over keflavik 9:14 pm

We have just turned in over land, only a few minutes from touching down. At this point you will normally see the outskirts of the city down below, trees rivers and highways. To my surprise there is nothing here, just a grey brown plain of broken rock and earth stretching uninterrupted out to the sea. Not a single sign of civilization. What kind of strange land is this we are coming to?… Read the rest

May 22, 2014 0

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Long drive and glaciers

Over keflavik 9:14 pm