Well, that is about it folks! Happy Trails from Galavanting Geezers!!!

A gorgeous day in Iceland. Today was sunny with blue skies so especially beautiful. We headed west to Vik. We left the apartment about 9am and drove for about 90 minutes through rather unremarkable landscapes. Then…wow!!! Seljalandsfoss! We have finally caught up to the crowds and the parking lot was jamming! But somehow here, and…

Jackie and Paul went on a puffin tour  (they saw thousands!!) and I stayed in (I have seen puffins before) and enjoyed a slow morning with my  coffee and reviewing the day’s activities ahead. We had gone to a grocery store yesterday and bought breakfast items and sack lunch items for today because we are…

Tuesday, July 14 We disembark today. Pouring rain…had to walk quite a ways to get the rental car but it all worked out. It was only 9am and we couldn’t check into our apartment until 3pm so we drove into Reykjavik to see the church, Hallgrimskirkja. This church looks like it is ready to blast…

Cannot believe this is the last day on the ship  but I think we are all ready to disembark. It has been great but the ship is getting a little small. Todays stop was Isafjordur. A quick bus ride with a few viewpoint stops to taste some local foods: dried haddock, chocolate, local flavored salt,…

Wow…this was a crazy day!! We started off with Gudafoss waterfall. 40 feet tall and 99 feet wide! It is just feet from the road and gorgeous, a little Niagara Falls. The name means waterfall of the Gods. We will learn over the next week or so that Icelanders are very much tied into their…

Getting off the ship, my first view of Iceland, there were 25 waterfalls in my view!!! 25!!!!  E-bikes today!!! The bikes they had were pretty heavy (65 pounds) so I had trouble getting on and off because I was afraid I was going to drop the bike. If someone held the bike for me, I…

Our one and only day at sea: they really have a lot going on. We played Bingo. $30 for 6 cards and then they divided the cash throughout the games, the first game paid about $240 and the last game paid over $400!!! Of course, none of us won but the cards were cool and…

Slower start today since our excursion did not leave until noonish. The first sop on our bus ride was to walk over the Atlantic Ocean! So we walked the Clachan Bridge, 72 feet long and 35 feet high which spans the Clachan Sounds who drinks into the Atlantic Ocean. This is the only place in…

Time changed overnight and we totally screwed up the alarm (trying to figure out if our phone would change time on or off wi-fi really screwed things up) and instead of being able to sleep in late, we were jolted out of bed at 6:00am!!! Lerwick is a charming town of about 23,000 folks. Peaceful…

July 7 We were waitlisted for the excursion that we wanted but in the meantime we decided we would do our own thing. We walked into the town and did a lot of shopping damage. Stores here were about the best shopping we have found. We booked a 2 hour driving tour for the afternoon…

Today was a pretty amazing day! A 2 hour bus ride to a Viking Village treated us to such gorgeous scenery! The Hardangerfjord, in western Norway,  is the 2nd longest fjord in Norway and the 3rd longest in the world. I simply cannot explain how many waterfalls there are here. There are some huge impressive…