Today was our traveling-back-home-day. Nothing special, just get in the bus to the airport, buy some Brennivín (Icelands most well known drink, also named Balck Death) and fly home.
All wend well, until Wouter discovered his car keys electronics did not survive the Icelandic weather. The short story: drive to Boxtel, pick-up spare key, drive to [...]
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Today is Menningarnótt, Culture Night. Everywhere bands are playing, half of Iceland is in the center of Reykjavik, drinking beer everywhere. Around 23:00 the fireworks start (ten seconds after the countdown ended) and after that there was some more beer drinking. I am not sure if I ever saw so much drunk people in one [...]
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The Blue Lagoon is another tourist loaded attraction. But the bathing in the warm blue waters with minarals is really nice for the muscles after all the biking.
After a lazy dinner it was time to explore Reykjaviks nightlife. Visiting multiple bars is an absolute must! First we wend to the English Pub, with some live [...]
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6.4km (from the campsite to Thingvellir and back)
50km (from Thingvellir to Reykjavik)
Our originial plan was to “do” Thingvellir today and go to Reykjavik tomorrow. We combines this in one, to have a day left for Menningarnótt
Thingvellir is special for two reasons. The two tectonic (?) plates of Europe and America are drifting a [...]
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52.4km
After Geysir and Gulfoss we are on our way to the third part of the Golden circle: Thingvellir. The ride was mainly over normal roads, only a small part gravel, only one climb that counts, and for the rest not really special, or are we spoiled?
Things not to say when biking in Iceland (or anywhere [...]
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