Some things

Goðafoss

Imagine Peace Tower, Reykjavik, Iceland

Fishing

A view from a glacier

We stopped when we had driven a few minutes on Vatnajökullglacier to deflate the tyres on the trucks (which helps them ‘float’ on the snow). 

This gives you some idea about the amount of ash that was spewed out in last years volcanic eruption in Grímsvötn (wich by the way was considerably less than in the big one in Eyjafjallajökull two years ago). At the roots of Vatnajökull glacier (on wich Grímsvötn is located) it hasn’t snowed as much as higher up on the glacier so there was more thawing. But here the ash had formed a sort of protective layer for the ice. So basically, this is how thick the ash was here after the eruption. 

Wow.

So. A few weeks back I went on an epic road trip. Four huge jeeps, nine people and a huge glacier (Vatnajökull glacier in Iceland, the biggest glacier in Europe). I will be sharing photos from the trip over the next days.

This was the view from the hut were we stayed on the first night, before we drove on to the glacier itself. 

Down at the docs

There’s plenty of fish in the sea around Iceland and everybody can go and fish for food. People born in Iceland usually don’t do that though, at most they go with their kids and fish for fun and then throw the fish away. If you see grown people fishing for food down at the docs its usually immigrants, as was the case this time. 

Maybe we could learn something from them.

Rod and wheel. 

My dad, fly fishing. 

Every summer me and my dad, along with two other guys, go trout fishing in Laxá river in Aðaldalur which is in the north-eastern part of Iceland. It’s basically one of my favourite things to do. We get into a really close pattern to mother nature while we are there.