Showing posts with label Iceland. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Iceland. Show all posts

September 8, 2010

Results

As i have day off today i decided to write hre about results of this trip and it influence on me.
Here are things that i wanted to do there and what i really did:

  • improve english - i did it and decided to to learn it more and more
  • remember basics of french - done partly
  • learn some basics of islandic - partly done =)
  • learn as mush as i can about Iceland - done for sure
  • visit as much as i can in Reykjavik - i wish i was there more time
  • meet new friends from Europe - done, and i'm hapy for implementation of this paragragh
  • become more independent - yeap
  • have fun - absolutely done
I can say that it was very delivering trip. And i made a lot of important decisions because of it. I quited my job, decided to take some french classes and work on my english. I decided to follow my fate and cme back to Iceland . Maybe for you all of this seems to be not so important but for me it is one of the most important decisions in my life. Well i hope that i'll cope with it and will follow my fate)

September 1, 2010

White house

I´m at Reykjavik almost for two days and it were good days. Yesterday it was the last evening with my group because today majority of them left Iceland. Even Dylan had to leave today but he came back from airport cause he was "overbooked" =) And this two days i spent a lot of time in the White house. (White house is the center of volonteur life here) Few minutes ago i moved all my stuff here again cause it´ll be a party tonight. Well now here from my group are only me, Dylan and Noa. I´m repeating my words but I really  don´t want to leave this place.
I think tht it is the last message from iceland, so see u in other countries.

BTW  it is still summer in Iceland =)

August 30, 2010

Last day

In 40 minutes I'll leave this beautiful place. I'm really sad about it. I'm not saying good bay to majority of our group cause we're planing to go out tonight but anyway our camp is over. I know that I'll never forget this two weeks that i spent with amazing people here in Hveragerdi. Well i have nothing to say now.
In two days I'll be in Helsinki and than in St. Petersburg and on 4th of September in Moscow, so see you

August 29, 2010

last week

I didn't write here for quite a long time. It's because i really have got time. As I wrote previously everything is great here, but this is your last week and it almost ends so i'm a little bit sad. Yesterday the first person our campleader left camp, for me it's a great miss because now i have got nobody to speak russian =) But there were a lot of good things. On wednesday we had a half day off and we spend this day great. Firstly we went to the ice-cream factory were tried amazing ice-cream, than we went to the hot river which is in 7 km from our house so we got very tired but it was so funny because majority of us fell into the river when we were crossing it, and some of us became very maddy And at evening we celebrated Laura's birthday =) Yesterday we had a great local party (again) but it was so crazy, and today i finally visited Reykjavik. Well after this night and day in capital i get absolutely tired and Dylan (I use his laptop) is quite bored without his comp that's why i have to end.
BTW I found places to stay in Reykjavik and Helsinki

August 28, 2010

Vestmannayjar

Today was our saturday and we decided to go for the all day to the Vestmannayjar. It is an island on the south of Iceland. Nothing interesting? It is famous because half of it was destroyed by volcano eruption in 1973. We were very unlucky with weather: for the first time it was rain, quite cold and fog. To go there we had to take bus and ferry, and we have to say thank you to the manager of  our clinic who made our trip much more cheaper, because he called to his friend (who is manager of the bus company) and asked him to make discount for us (i told you that people in iceland are very nice!). When we get to this island we decided to climb the volcano, but because of fog we missed the rout and just climbed it with the help of fence on slope (i have no idea why there was a fence). It was really hard, and we were tired like we worked all day. But the funniest thing was when we met people on the top who looked at us like we were crazy. After talking to them we understood that we climbed the steep slope =) We spent around hour on the top. It was really amazing, we discovered that ground there was hot, and some holes in stones were like sauna) Oh, bacsuse of this damn fog we saw nothing but fog all around us instead of amazing view on the island. But anyway we really enjoyed our trip and were happy that we climbed the volcano)

August 25, 2010

Hveragerdi

Ok guys, i told you a lot about my camp, but i forgot to mention city where we lived. And i have to say that it was my big mistake. This city is situated in 40 km from capital, only 3000 people live here. Not only, for Iceland 3000 is a very big number) Well, this city is called capital of hot springs and it is true: here everywhere you can see steam that comes from the ground. But it's not all, also there is a waterfall in city. I always had a dream to swim under the waterfall and i finally implemented it hear: it was crazy, because temperature hear is not higher that +20, but we were lucky cause this waterfall is a continue of the hot river that i told you about, so water there was warm))
Also there is an ice cream factory that makes an amazing ice cream. Omg i'll miss this icecream so bad! We had an excursion to this factory, it was boring but it wasn't a waste of time. Guess why? Right, because we had a free ice cream as a souvenir))
All icelanders love different festivals, that's why we saw a flower festival here. There wasn't nothing special about it except free ice cream, but i have to warn you. For the festval this factory prepares unusual sorts of ice cream, that' s why you can taste on this festival ice cream with oreo, honey or - if you're unlucky like i'm - with fish!
I fell that i forgot about something important. Oh, yeah. There are a lot of green houses in this city and locals call their city "Icelandic Amsterdam", just guess why =)
And i can't forget about people who live here. Maybe all people in Iceland are so kind, friendly and hospitable, i don't know, but i can say for sure if you come to Hveragerdi in a couple of hours you'll find hear a lot of new friends!

August 23, 2010

weekend

Oh, weather here is really strange. It's warm but wind is awful. And you know I  didn't go the Reykjavik on the weekend. We just stayed here in Hveregerdi for the all weekend and everything because some icelandic boys that we met at the street. The only think that I can say about them that they are really crazy. Well everything begins on the friday night when three of us went with them out, then they invited us to stay here for saturday too. We stayed and I must say that it was crazy night. Well have fun there and never drink with icelanders =)

August 16, 2010

Reykjavik

I can´t beliave that it´s happening to me. I´m at Reykjavik. For the last three days I was at St.Retersburg and have to escaoe from one guy, spent 10 hours at airport Vantaa and wolked throw Reykjavik without any map =) What can i say, everything here is great and i like it. Now i stay at flat of one great guy and there are three girls from Poland. But it is a lot of time here, I have to go)

When i wrote everything under this i really was there and i was to excited to tell you about this great city. Now i decided to write something about it, and as i already have post named "Reykjavik", i'll just continue it.
Reykjavik is the capital of Iceland as you know. But this city consists of several towns and all of them together are called capital area. But don't be scared, even together they are smaller than half of Moscow. It takes around hour and a half to walk through it =)
Icelanders love to decorate their streets and houses, that's why you can find at any free space some monument, and almost all big buildings are decorated with something)
Almost all famous places are in the very center of Reykjavik near the ocean. I think you could hear about them - it is City Hall (useless place indeed, but beautiful), Halldrimskirkja Church (Reykjavik's main landmark), Hofdi House (shame on me but i didn't visit it), The Voyager monument (the most famous monument) and The Pearlan (good place for taking panoramic photos). I don't want to talk about all of this because you can read it here.
Oh, very interesting place to go is Art Museum. It is very very strange place where you understand that you just can't understand icelandic art. But it definitely worth visiting (especially because it is for free).
Food, well food in Iceland is quite expensive, but very healthy and good. If you need cheap food you can go to Bonus supermarket, but i didn't enjoy it. What you have to taste in iceland is it's hotdogs. You can not believe me but hotdogs here are the best hotdogs in the world. Just go to the any fatsfood store and ask hotdog with everything. You won't regret about it. What else.... Oh, i want to share with you information about one great mexican cafe! It's called Santa Maria, and it is on the Laugavegur Street. It is hard to find, but do it, food there is amazing. Also the owner of this place collects money from different countries)
Nightlife is great there, it's useless to talk about it because you have to try it.
About transport. It is quite expensive and hard to understand. There are a lot of timetables and stations are too hard to pronounce right. That's why i definitely recommend to use hitch hiking in iceland: it is for free, it is totally safe and you have a chance to meet interesting people.
Just go to Reykjavik!