Italy Day 3: Splashing in the Mediterranean Sea
[This HAPPENED on 04 August 2014, but was written 29 SEPTEMBER 2014. Yeah.]
Our destination on this lovely Monday was the small Mediterranean beach-town of Varazze. The plan was to at least stick our toes into the water, but preferably spend the day at the beach. The drive there took a little over an hour on the awesome highway-system. Bizarrely, the road was littered with tunnels of varying lengths. I vaguely recall someone counting over thirty of them on the way back! (39 images total)
Bjarki enjoying life in front of the TV in the early morning. I think his favorite show was Peppa Pig.
To France!
[Written 14 AUGUST 2014. In French.]
In April, we booked direct tickets to Lyon for two weeks. Because we’re crazy like that.
Initially we figured we’d stay close to our friends who were also going to be in the area, but in the end we opted for staying in Lyon, renting a house through airbnb.com, an hour away from them. Instead, we planned to meet our friends in Italy, again renting a place through airbnb for all of us. (9 images total)
Cute kids at the Keflavik airport. We ordered pizza and let them eat it in front of the tv. That was a big hit!
Copenhagen Again
On my second day in Copenhagen I woke up at 8am (grrr… only 6 hours of sleep) and went to meet the good people of NORDUnet as well as the other representatives from the five Nordic countries to help plan this year’s conference. After the meeting ended that day, I headed back to my hotel for 20 minutes of horizontal time, before heading back out again to meet the planning committee at a fancy restaurant where we had a great dinner. On my way to the dinner I happened to walk through a portion of Kastellet, which was very pretty. Here are all the pictures, a selection of which is below.
At the Central Train Station at 09:30. I really liked the achways, but had a hard time getting a good picture of them.
An Early-Bird Christmas Vacation
Once I found out that I’d be all done with final exams on December 5th, I went right ahead and bought tickets for us to spend 10 days in the UK before Christmas with dad et al. It’s always nice to change scenery, and get a little extra daylight over the darkest bit of the year in Iceland. So to England we flew, and spent the days mostly just hanging out at my dad’s, oh and I did a bit of shopping too. 🙂
Friday 9 December 2011
The stewardesses of Icelandair have this lovely custom of coming out into the main waiting area and sing happy Yule-tide songs before heading to the planes (which all depart around the same time). They're really quite good!! 🙂