On the road again….
It has been a long three years since Covid suspended travel and brought us back home from Australia in March, 2020 so this is the beginning of our first big trip since then…
Here is one of our last pictures from the Great Ocean Road tour which took us to Melbourne and then back home, a great memory….
This trip will see us through Iceland, Denmark, Norway, Sweden and Finland with a short side trip to Estonia so a lot of ground to cover in 52 days….let’s see how well we do with this
We began this trip with an overnight flight from Toronto to Reykjavik, the capital of Iceland. The airport is located about 45 minutes from the city so we took a bus in and our first impressions of the landscape was of volcanic rock and little vegetation…
By the time we arrived in to the city it was 3 degrees but the sun was shining so that was a bonus! We are staying in a cute little apartment in the centre of the city for a week and will tour parts of the country from here.
Iceland is an island country at the confluence of the North Atlantic and Arctic oceans, east of Greenland and immediately south of the Arctic Circle, atop the boundary of the northern Mid-Atlantic Ridge. The island country is the world's 18th largest in area and one of the most sparsely populated. In comparison Newfoundland and Labrador is the 15th largest island in the world.
Reykjavik is the capital city of Iceland and it is where most of the population lives…the country has about 350,000 people and about 180,000 live here. It is a very walkable city and in a few days we saw most of it!
One of the main landmarks in the city is Halligrimis Kirkja…The Church of Halligrimur. It is the largest church in Iceland and towers over the centre of the city…
The church can been seen at the end of one of the pedestrian streets in the centre of the city. Up close it is massive…
