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๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ธ iceland๐Ÿ‡ธ๐Ÿ‡ฏ svalbard

A Day at Sea, Sailing Toward Svalbard

You can see some photos of our days at sea here. Today is our first of two days at sea. We lost an hour as we were to turn our clocks ahead one hour. We had to remind ourselves how…

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รsafjรถrรฐur: Iceland’s Wild Westfjords

More photos from our day can be found here. Thank to our friend Will who stepped in to mow our lawn after big (unexpected) rain in Lafayette that caused late August grass (unexpectedly) to grow! After a quick breakfast, we…

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Last Day in Reykjavรญk & Setting Sail

Here are a few pictures from this day Alan rose early this morning and went to recover the car from the parking, which was just 3 blocks away. He hoped to get to one of the OB gas stations to…

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Photos from Reykjavik – August 17, 2026

Here are some pictures from our last day in Reykjavik, after we checked out of our hotel and as we got onto the cruising part of our trip. More pictures to come (maybe not until we return). Click on the…

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Waterfalls, Black Sand & Bubbling Hot Springs

Photos from the day can be found here: We started our day using the shared bathrooms downstairs with no problems and no waiting and weโ€™re on to breakfast. A friendly ginger cat greeted us as we walked to breakfast and…

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Photos from Southern Iceland, August 15, 2026

We drove from Reykjavik east to Thingvelir National Park and on to Geysir and Gulfoss before staying near Sulfoss. [click on individual pictures to see full picture]

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Welcome to Reykjavรญk! [August 14, 2026]

Photos from this day can be found here. After landing at Keflavik, we headed to customs. There was quite a line of people with non-European passports. Once we reached the part of the line that winds back and forth, the…

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Travel to Iceland

Day 1 (or 0, if you donโ€™t get excited about travel) Google routed us through Crawfordsville to get to Alanโ€™s brotherโ€™s house, our Uber driver to the Indianapolis Airport. We saw later that I65 was a mess, so another indicator…

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