Baltic, Iceland, Norway and the U.K.on a cruise

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10 minutes ago, Host Bonjour said:

 

Gordon had it coming 😉 

 

No warning about the that....um....finale: puffin shucking? The F bombs I can handle, the uh cooking preparations, not so much, but thanks for the alert. 😳 

 

Ah, a shetland pony. I could see why your wife took a shine to them. Some people have dogs bigger than that so really, would it be a problem? I think I thought it was a goat? Luckily, I've never seen a food show where they cooked a shetland pony. Can't say the same for goats. If I see Andrew roaming around the city, I'll pass on the message. I think he lives in these parts but is often also on the road eating...bizarre things. Hopefully not shetlands. 

 

I see messages above that says Photobucket isn't responding. Have you used Flickr? I don't know if it works on here so I maybe shouldn't suggest if I don't know about it but you can host edited images there for free. 

 

Keep the photos and vids coming! 🙂 Let us know when the pony arrives...

 

The puffin gave us a laugh before he died . We have the room for a Shetland pony but he probably would  not care for our heat and humidity here . One of our favorite shows is the Amazing Race and our guide  drove some of the people around when they filmed in the Shetlands . We have 10 days before our payment to Photobucket is due and if we don't pay it all of our photos on all of our threads would disappear from CC . Thanks for the recommendation as we will consider all our options at this point . Here's a little teaser video from our visit to Lerwick .

 

 

 

 

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It was also at this point that the climb became steeper and that buses from the cruise ship arrived 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Our knees and the groups of people pushing past us on the steep , scree covered trail told us that this should be our turn around point

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Pondering the descent and enjoying the view

 

 

As we were going down and a group going up you can see a head net on the first guy and some midges on the camera lens in this video :

 

 

 

Almost there , we can see the bathrooms on the left

 

 

 

 

 

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We had reached our turnaround point 

 

 

Our next stop was a museum at Hrafnseyri which Pat and I walked thru alone

 

 

It was basically a time line showing World History with Icelandic History interwoven

 

 

 

Toward the end we could hear some talking and singing

 

 

 

 

And as it turned out , we were there on the 17th of June

 

 

 

Which is the birthday of Jón Sigurðsson , the leader of Iceland's move to independence from Denmark . This is also his birthplace and the day is Icelandic National Day ( Independence Day )

 

 

 

 

 

[MicCanberra]

Looks like they have done some work on the carpark and toilet areas at the base of the falls.

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Just now, MicCanberra said:

Looks like they have done some work on the carpark and toilet areas at the base of the falls.

 

That's good news to make improvements .

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We were invited into the turf roof buildings

 

 

 

and to have some of the celebratory birthday cake 

 

 

Marzpan cake with strawberry cream 

 

 

The best desert of the entire trip

 

[MicCanberra]

it does look good.

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The church dates back to 1886

 

 

 

They also had Icelandic Horses for the kids to ride

 

 

 

It's hard to imagine a more scenic area to celebrate their 75 th Anniversary of Independence 

 

 

 

 

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Our last stop was at Bessa's farm

 

 The surroundings are beautiful

 

 

 

A  Redshank on the post

 

 

 

Eider Duck on the nest

 

 

off the nest

 

 

and in the field playing catch up

 

 

 

 

[Host Bonjour]

On 1/6/2020 at 5:22 PM, scubacruiserx2 said:

 

The puffin gave us a laugh before he died . We have the room for a Shetland pony but he probably would  not care for our heat and humidity here . One of our favorite shows is the Amazing Race and our guide  drove some of the people around when they filmed in the Shetlands . We have 10 days before our payment to Photobucket is due and if we don't pay it all of our photos on all of our threads would disappear from CC . Thanks for the recommendation as we will consider all our options at this point . Here's a little teaser video from our visit to Lerwick .

 

 

 

 

 

Oh my, I see why she wants one...absolutely adorable!! And it's got a kind of llama vibe to it as well. Very cute. Might not be keen on heat and humidity but then again, it might. 😉 Thank you for the teaser video.

 

I use Adobe Creative Cloud, which includes a bundle of tools like Lightroom, Photoshop, 20GB storage, and many other apps I haven't even tried yet. Very reasonable monthly price that costs less than my Hulu subscription (I don't have the live bundle) and gives me so much flexibility. No contract, can cancel anytime, and no I don't work with Adobe. Previously I have used Flickr, VSCO, Effects Studio, Diptic, but not all for the same reasons. Flickr was always one that was for posting a gallery of photos, and free but I haven't checked in lately to see if they've added pricing tiers; they probably have, like most apps. VSCO has, and the others never were free but I got Effects Studio for free early in Starbucks Rewards (they used to give aways apps every week!) and Diptic I bought, though it wasn't expensive but it's not meant to be a storage utility. 

Sorry I went off topic a bit. Now back to the beautiful Iceland photo/video review. Loving it!

 

 

 

 

[Host Bonjour]

19 hours ago, scubacruiserx2 said:

 

 

Close-ups on delectable desserts and adorable ponies. You do like to tempt and tease....

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1 hour ago, Host Bonjour said:

 

Oh my, I see why she wants one...absolutely adorable!! And it's got a kind of llama vibe to it as well. Very cute. Might not be keen on heat and humidity but then again, it might. 😉 Thank you for the teaser video.

 

I use Adobe Creative Cloud, which includes a bundle of tools like Lightroom, Photoshop, 20GB storage, and many other apps I haven't even tried yet. Very reasonable monthly price that costs less than my Hulu subscription (I don't have the live bundle) and gives me so much flexibility. No contract, can cancel anytime, and no I don't work with Adobe. Previously I have used Flickr, VSCO, Effects Studio, Diptic, but not all for the same reasons. Flickr was always one that was for posting a gallery of photos, and free but I haven't checked in lately to see if they've added pricing tiers; they probably have, like most apps. VSCO has, and the others never were free but I got Effects Studio for free early in Starbucks Rewards (they used to give aways apps every week!) and Diptic I bought, though it wasn't expensive but it's not meant to be a storage utility. 

Sorry I went off topic a bit. Now back to the beautiful Iceland photo/video review. Loving it!

 

 

 

 

 

Thanks for the tips .

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1 hour ago, Host Bonjour said:

 

Close-ups on delectable desserts and adorable ponies. You do like to tempt and tease....

 

We hope to share and please . 😉

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The wind came up a little bit for the ride back to the ship

 

 

 

It was fun to watch the tenders in recovery mode

 

 

 

 

 

The Captain said that after dinner we would be sailing into the fjord that we had visited with Bessa

earlier .

 

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Lobsterilla paid us a visit in our room

 

 

Scenic fjord cruising

 

 

 

 

There were a couple of events that we missed on the ship . The night before we went to Isafordur they had the Polar Bear Plunge at 22:00 when we crossed into the Arctic Circle . When we were in Antarctica in January , we were on time for the plunge , but they had it early and so we missed it there also . They also had fish and chips at the Lido which had just closed after we returned to the Zuiderdam . We vowed to have some soon .

 

The Where and When for Reykjavik

 

 

 

 

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With an overnight in Reykjavik and the Midnight Sun we hoped to go to the glacier lagoon about 5 hours away but we couldn't find a guide that would take would take us there , so we settled for the South Shore . It was kinda bumpy coming in .

 

 

 

We felt a little awkward after meeting Jens ( My name is Yens ) . Because we were the only passengers in a 19 passenger vehicle  , we sat near Jens but he talked to us with a microphone and a PA system.

 

 

We stopped here for a look at a glacier

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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We really liked this walk up waterfall Skogafoss

 

 

 

200' ( 60 M ) free fall

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

You can see the stairs on the right of this one

 

 

 

[MicCanberra]

I don't recall seeing this one, probably as we did the golden circle and this may be in the other direction.

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20 minutes ago, MicCanberra said:

I don't recall seeing this one, probably as we did the golden circle and this may be in the other direction.

 

It was down South near Vik 

 

 

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We next went down to the black sands and Vik

 

 

When it started raining and we ducked into the cave

 

 

 

 

 

There are some basalt columns there that are perfect for climbing .... if you're young

 

 

 

 

[MicCanberra]

That explains it, the basalt rock formation is similar to the giant's causeway in Northern Ireland/ Scotland.

[Nitemare]

If you map it out, the basalt in southern Iceland can be imagined to go across the waters and end at Giant's Causeway. 

 

Perhaps they are connected? 😉

Too bad you didn't have a sunny day at Skogafoss, there's pretty much a permanent rainbow there

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10 minutes ago, Nitemare said:

If you map it out, the basalt in southern Iceland can be imagined to go across the waters and end at Giant's Causeway. 

 

Perhaps they are connected? 😉

Too bad you didn't have a sunny day at Skogafoss, there's pretty much a permanent rainbow there

 

Some of the countryside with the greens and hills reminded us of Ireland . We are scheduled to go back in August in the afternoon so perhaps we  will see the rainbow then . We finish in Boston for a couple days including Labor day so any places to visit there would be appreciated .

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Heading back to the car park

 

 

 

 

Next stop

 

 

An overview of Vik

 

 

 

From here

 

 

They seemed to have these stores at all of the ports . We stopped at a large one in Vik with a place eat . We tried the fish and chips and lamb soup .