Today was my first day at work at the University of Iceland. It was a decidedly low-key day, which wasn’t surprising since most everybody was returning to work after a summer holiday which ended on a three-day weekend. I showed up around 10am and after a bit of wandering I ended up in the adminRead more
Today was Finnur’s 36th birthday! Whooo! Sadly he didn’t get to do very many fun things since he had to spend the day working. We did have a nice dinner though, and in the evening his parents and two siblings plus other halves came to the new place for a short visit. (The photos hereRead more
This week has zoomed past shockingly fast, as ‘the real life’ has started to emerge. Bjarki started his new daycare on Monday, but only for a couple of hours for the first couple of days, then for slightly longer periods of time every day. Finnur in the meantime started working again, after a month-long summerRead more
Just added a couple of photo-posts below: Driving to Ólafsvík, and In Grundarfjörður.Read more
Late Tuesday night we decided to tag along the next day with Adda and Halli to Snæfellsnes, a peninsula north of the capital area. Finnur’s parents happen to have a small house in one of the towns there, Ólafsvík, which turned out to be available for a couple of nights. We drove there on WednesdayRead more
Here are pictures from our last day on the Snæfellsnes-peninsula.
We spent Friday morning packing up and cleaning out the house. Lunch was therefore served outside.
We woke up to glorious weather, and headed for the pool in Ólafsvík around lunchtime. We discovered that it was an indoor pool, which was not very appealing in the blazing sun. We therefore drove a little ways east to Grundarfjörður.
The public swimming pool in Grundarfjörður. I failed to take a picture in the other direction to document the very impressive view from the pool.
We drove north from Reykjavík shortly after noon on a Wednesday towards Ólafsvík on the Snæfellsnes-peninsula. Snæfellsnes is the home of Snæfellsjökull, the glacier of the snowy-mount-peninsula, a.k.a. the entrance to the center of the Earth. Trailing us were Adda and Halli hauling a tent-trailer.
Leaving the capital. It was raining ever so slightly.
We’ve started losing track of which day it is, since they’re all pretty much the same. We wake up around 9pm (give or take 30 minutes) and it’s always Bjarki that gets up first. It then takes us close to 3 hours to actually get ourselves together well enough to leave the house. This includesRead more
Hrumph. I’ve found myself repeatedly thinking “oh, I should blog” over the past week, but deciding not to because I had pictures I really wanted to put up first. So, I’m not sure what to do about that. It goes back to the “how to insert old pictures into the blog” discussion, but is moreRead more