Author Archives: Chris

Goodbye Summer…

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I met him on the street, he was disoriented. After taking the pic I put him back into nature  – since then I haven’t seen any other yet. It was a sign the summer was over.

Kieler Woche

A fellow Iceland traveller who lives nearby Kiel asked us to come over and join a boat trip at the Kieler Woche, the worlds largest sailing event. A colleague of mine gave us a lift by car on Saturday and so we arrived to meet up with the guy around noon.

It turned out that the boat was the historic steamboat “Bussard” from 1906 which was hired for an exclusive private trip for employees and friends of the HDW shipyard in Kiel.

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Whale Watching

Upon our arrival in Húsavík we had the choice between doing a 3 hour boat trip in the Fjord or wandering in the Ásbyrgi gorge. The Fjord is famous for it’s high rate (almost 100%!) whale sightings of different species and due to that reason known as the center of whale watching in Iceland. – The choice was quite clear!

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