Today was the Golden Circle tour, one of the ‘must do’ Icelanding things. Or possibly Þings. The instructions were to wait on the doorstep of the hostel between 0800-0830 for pickup; The shuttle van turned up at 0829ish. Thee’d been some…

Today’s thing, because yesterday was a Sunday, was Hallsgrimskirkja, seen here lurking behind a tree. For all that it looks like the figurehead of a ship in that shot, the statue isn’t connected to the church; It’s a statue of …

First, a picture of the wee courtyard where the kitchen lives. The block that the hostel is on is built hollow, or at least this bit of it is. No idea if that’s a common thing here, though I’ve seen…

More wandering around today, though I picked a different direction. Found a monument to Civil Disobedience, which seems very Icelandic.   And a tiny little park, which I mostly photographed because I could see a particular building and it amused…

The hostel WiFi/Internet Router may be having trouble. I was able to get an internet connection on my phone, but not my tablet, in the evening, and I wasn’t the only one having that trouble. A restart fixed it then,…

The plan had been to get an early start and … well, that didn’t entirely happen. It was earlier than yesterday, so that’s a good thing. On the early start front, the guy from San Francisco had an unpleasantly early flight,…

Late-arriving guy turned out to also be early-rising guy, which seems like being a glutton for punishment. There’s a reason for that, but I only found out later. The Travel Hangover (note: Find a better name for that) was in the…

This post started out more negatively than I’d like, so I’m mixing it up a bit in the hope that this will reduce that a bit. I’m staying at the Reykjavik Downtown Hostel, which conveniently enough is actually downtown, and…

It was sometime during this stay that I ticked over into a higher category of loyalty membership for the Hilton conglomerate; I’m assuming by nights stayed or total stays, because I’m sure as hell not worth it for dollars spent.…

Train leaves Indy at 6am. Which sucks. I packed my bags on Sunday night, post-gaming, and got to bed at maybe 1am. Had an early alarm set, and for some reason 3am was the time I’d decided made sense. It did allow…