Travel Tales: Iceland Day 2 – Mr. Solo Dolo
The first thing on my mind this morning was, “I am really in Iceland.” It is still settling in with every passing moment. Except the water, which smells and tastes funny. Today I was off to see the Golden Circle route. I got up at 630am – I know I know I’m supposed to be on vacation so I turned off my alarm and did the “I’ll rest my eyes for 5mins”. Sad mistake as I did a scramble at amto get ready and run to the supermarket. My bus pickup was for 830am and I figured I should pack some snacks for the 10 hour tour. This store was a 24 hour supermarket and I did my usual – I have a list but will go down every aisle (806am) after grabbing two smoothies, two muffins and a candy bar I figured I should get a croissant to eat now. Two choices – warm or cold. I went warm..wrong choice. I opened it to put some butter and what awaited me – a nice warm piece of ham. Straight to the trash with that after a short fit of swearing. (815am). Swallowed down a muffin and a smoothie then head outside to wait for the bus. [edit: i don't eat meat which is why i had my fit of cussing. i had to do with the muffin and smoothie. who puts ham in a croissant and doesn't even have the decency to label it!?!]
The first stop we made was the Reykjavik geothermal power plant. On the way astronauts spent some time in central Iceland before the moon trip because the terrain of that area is said to be similar of that of the moon. That is according to the monotone tour guide. On the way, the tour guide mentioned the fields of dried lava after the volcano eruption. The tour guide said the eruptions happen once every 5 years or so and the last one was in 2004.. so 5 years later would be..2009? oh dear.
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Travel Tales: Copenhagen Day 3 – Rolling Down The Streets…
Another good day in Copenhagen. I realized that I can start most of my days around 10am since nothing opens before 11am for the most part. I did decide to leave a little early though with the hopes that my wheels would be tucked in the stash spot and sure enough it was! So clean after the rain fall earlier in the day. Since I had my bike still, it only made sense that the first stop be the farthest point I had to go- The Little Mermaid statue. Word is that she is the most photographed individual in the world. The bike started to suck as I think it was slightly broken because it was three times the work of any other bike and people where flying past me like I was cruising in Prospect Park with the Saturday bikers pack.
I made it to the statue in about 10 minutes and sure enough as soon as I pulled up the rain stared falling…correction pouring down on me (that is the dot and marks you see in the photo in the gallery). Thankfully the rain scared away the group of tourists (who were hogging all the good spots) like if they were the Wicked Witch. It is a wonderful site to see the statue set in the water gifted to the city by Carl Jacobsen (same one from yesterday) after seeing the ballet based on Hans Christian Andersen’s fairy tale. Next was back on the bike and off to see the a couple other sites as I headed to the changing of the Royal guard.
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September 28, 2009 | Categories: Art + Design, Audio + Video, Commentary, People + Places | Tags: Changing of the Guards, Copenhagen, Denmark, food, Photography, Travel Tales, Video | Leave A Comment »