From Wicklow with love.
When last night I suggested on our WhatsApp group a field trip to Glendalough it was just a loose idea that I hopped for to spark some interest. To my great joy Sonja responded first and within couple of minutes we…
Cake number 34.
It happens that beginning of September marks my birthday. As a kid I wasn’t particularly looking forward to that day as it coincided with end of the summer and start of school. Obviously two most terrible things for most boys.…
The Northern Lights
I guess everyone knows what they are; not everybody seen them live. The ones who have, know that they look nothing like they’d imagine… Hunting for them in the summer is like going rock climbing in the spring – technically possible, sometimes you’ll get conditions…
Days 6 (Hverfjall, Vindbelgiarfjall), 7 (Hraunfossar / Barnafoss) & going home.
I didn’t have time in the last 2 days to update, as we were doing a lot of driving. We knew that last two days will be tough. It’s a long distance from the north back to Reykjavik. We also…
Day 5 – 65 Degrees North, Detifoss, Hverir and Lake Myvatn
We are at the north now. Deep North.It’s considerably colder here. I mean its proper “brace yourselves, winter is comming cold”. We are about 1 deg south of the arctic circle which in 2016 runs 66°33′46.3″ north of the equator.…
Day 4 . Destination north east.
It was a really long day… mostly disappointing due to a bad weather. Imagine winter in Donegal, then multiply by 5. That’s your average Icelandic late August summer day. Oh well… We got up fairly early hoping to complete one…
Day 3 continued. Crashed plane, green canyon, old farmhouse and another glacier.
First of all thanks to all my followers for actually reading these words. It’s the only thing that motivates me to keep going with the updates. After we were ‘done’ with the glacier (in reality one is simply not “done”…
Day 3. At the glacier and going further east.
Woke up early in the morning. Earlier than we planned. Loud Spanish speaking folk in the tent next to ours made sure nobody overslept… I can’t stress enough how awesome the sight of 62m waterfall is. The power that comes…
First 2 days in Iceland. Reykjavik. Golden circle and moving east.
I finally got some time to write couple of words about our little trip to even further north than what my friend Kieran considers too far north. This free time is mainly due to break in the weather. It’s raining…
Fair Head and other Northern Adventures.
It finally happened. I managed to convince people (well, it took zero convincing this time, the team was more motivated than I) and climb in Fair Head. It was my (and Tereza’s) first ever trip there – while for Jirka…