Category Archives: 65º nordur

Car tour around Iceland

Epilogue: The golden circle

Posted on 08/04/2011 by freelander

  That morning of our fifth and last day’s journey was radiant: the sun shone on the white blanket covering the land, emphasizing, by contrast, all the colours around: the deep blue of a nearby lake, the dark grey line … Continue reading →

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Episode 4 (3rd part): Hvoll, an inhospitable youth hostel

Posted on 07/04/2011 by freelander

  If you’ve ever seen the ocean waters hurrying upstream for ransacking–as if living creatures, as if soldiers for the plunder of a defeated city, as if looters after the wreckage of a vessel–the spoils of a glacier’s end, there … Continue reading →

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Episode 4 (2nd part): Jökulsarlón, a visit to the dawn of time

Posted on 05/04/2011 by freelander

When the traveller driving south from Egilsstadir along the famous Icelandic Hring Vegur (the Ring Way) reaches the solitary mountain pass dividing the northern and southeastern basins, there appears before his eyes a magnificent view; but also a dismal one: … Continue reading →

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Episode 4 (1st part): Road #1

Posted on 30/03/2011 by freelander

  When I woke up in the morning of our fourth day’s journey, the world seemed rather more hospitable a place than in the eve: there was a bright sun to cheer us up and news were good: Benito was … Continue reading →

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Episode 3: The beautiful Nothing

Posted on 27/03/2011 by freelander

  On asking the employee in the Reykjavik tourist office what there is between Mývatn and Egilsstadir, i.e. the upper leftt quarter of the island, he had quickly replied: Nothing; and then added: but it’s a beautiful Nothing. And it was a … Continue reading →

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65 º nordur. Episode 2: Akureyri

Posted on 25/03/2011 by freelander

Located on the shoreline at the bottom of Eyjafördur in the north of Iceland, Akureyri is a lovely, small and rather quiet town; although with 17,000 inhabitants is the second largest in the country, after Reikjavik, ten times bigger. After the … Continue reading →

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65º nordur. Episode 1: the blizzard

Posted on 25/03/2011 by freelander

65º nordur. Tour around Iceland This is, somehow, a story about circles. It takes place at 65º north, right below the arctic circle. It gives an account of a trip around the Icelandic ring road, route nr 1. And it … Continue reading →

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