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[Chyros]

In more or less 24 hours I'm going to depart for a trip to Iceland, I shall be back the 4th of August!

[Wizard]

Chyros, on 22 August 2012 - 07:46, said:

In more or less 24 hours I'm going to depart for a trip to Iceland, I shall be back the 4th of August!

You're time travelling????

[Krieger22]

Wizard, on 22 August 2012 - 07:54, said:

Chyros, on 22 August 2012 - 07:46, said:

In more or less 24 hours I'm going to depart for a trip to Iceland, I shall be back the 4th of August!

You're time travelling????

Or did the difference between time zones just get bigger?

[Major Fuckup]

Iceland? Thats the one with no snow isn't it? Or was that Greenland...

[Wizard]

Major Fuckup, on 22 August 2012 - 09:41, said:

Iceland? Thats the one with no snow isn't it? Or was that Greenland...

Greenland = Ice
Iceland = Green

[Alias]

Have fun, mate.

Take some snaps.

[Major Fuckup]

Wizard, on 22 August 2012 - 09:48, said:

Major Fuckup, on 22 August 2012 - 09:41, said:

Iceland? Thats the one with no snow isn't it? Or was that Greenland...

Greenland = Ice
Iceland = Green

Whats with that

[Chyros]

Thanks guys!

Alias, on 22 August 2012 - 09:53, said:

Have fun, mate.

Take some snaps.

To be sure .

Major Fuckup, on 22 August 2012 - 10:19, said:

Wizard, on 22 August 2012 - 09:48, said:

Major Fuckup, on 22 August 2012 - 09:41, said:

Iceland? Thats the one with no snow isn't it? Or was that Greenland...

Greenland = Ice
Iceland = Green

Whats with that

Viking propaganda .

[Liten]

Make sure to spend all your money on booze so you can't afford decent food when you get back.

[Alias]

He's going to the UK soon, not like he's going to be able to get decent food there.

[Wizard]

Alias, on 22 August 2012 - 12:43, said:

He's going to the UK soon, not like he's going to be able to get decent food there.

Says a man from a country whose national method of cooking food is to cremate it

[Alias]

Wizard, on 22 August 2012 - 12:44, said:

Alias, on 22 August 2012 - 12:43, said:

He's going to the UK soon, not like he's going to be able to get decent food there.

Says a man from a country whose national method of cooking food is to cremate it

Says something about your cuisine if charcoal tastes better than it.

By the way Chyros, be sure to try some Hákarl. That'll prepare your gastric system for British food.

Edited by Alias, 22 August 2012 - 13:02.

[Chyros]

Alias, on 22 August 2012 - 12:57, said:

Wizard, on 22 August 2012 - 12:44, said:

Alias, on 22 August 2012 - 12:43, said:

He's going to the UK soon, not like he's going to be able to get decent food there.

Says a man from a country whose national method of cooking food is to cremate it

Says something about your cuisine if charcoal tastes better than it.

By the way Chyros, be sure to try some Hákarl. That'll prepare your gastric system for British food.

Yes, I'm familiar with the untold horrors of Icelandic cuisine .

[General]

So you gonna stay on that hell for a year ?

[TheDR]

Have fun! Don't get too cold

[Chyros]

General, on 22 August 2012 - 16:53, said:

So you gonna stay on that hell for a year ?

No, just 11 days .

TheDR, on 22 August 2012 - 17:01, said:

Have fun! Don't get too cold

Don't worry, I'm never cold .

[General]

Chyros, on 22 August 2012 - 18:09, said:

General, on 22 August 2012 - 16:53, said:

So you gonna stay on that hell for a year ?

No, just 11 days .

How you will be back at 4th August then ?

[Chyros]

General, on 22 August 2012 - 18:13, said:

Chyros, on 22 August 2012 - 18:09, said:

General, on 22 August 2012 - 16:53, said:

So you gonna stay on that hell for a year ?

No, just 11 days .

How you will be back at 4th August then ?

[Sgt. Rho]

I always wanted to go there D:

Have fun

[Ion Cannon!]

I've always wanted to go to iceland, was sort of going to for summer holiday one year, but that was changed to sicily because you can't guarantee the weather will be nice. Just be careful not to provoke any local volcanoes, or you might be there a bit longer than 11 days ^

[Chyros]

BACK!

It was amazing.

Pics and a major post to come soon.

Yes, the Hekla did erup while we were in Iceland .

[Chyros]

OK then, there we go.

Iceland is a fantastic country to visit. I heartily recommend it to everyone. And sooner rather than later, because the tourist sector is still young, so grab it while you can. Pictures, let alone pictures taken with a cheap camera, and not touched-up, don't do the country any justice at all, but I guess I'll give it a try.

The country itself is a geologist's wet dream and a staple to visit for them. Iceland is geologically speaking relatively young, so it's still fresh, uneroded and active. The landscape is unlike anything you've ever seen. You know how people go on about New Zealand being the most beautiful country in terms of nature? That's quite debatable with Iceland around. But Iceland hands-down wins the Most Bizarre contest. There is nothing remotely like it anywhere on Earth, and everywhere you go, the landscape is totally different.

The main landscape is a hilly, basalty landscape. Think stuff like this:





Occasional features include waterfalls, such as Barnafoss, Hraunfossar, Goþafoss, Dettifoss and Gulfoss,:



(these stretch for about a kilometre btw)







Other features include

sulphurous deserts



crater lakes



solfataras


boiling mud pools


red mountains


random ore deposits


geothermally active areas


rocky wastelands


beautiful valleys


natural hot mineral springs


nature baths based in a lagoon of heavily over-saturated natural spring water


fresh lava tracks


geysers


fumaroles



sheep


explosion craters


snowy mountains


mountains seemingly made of gravel (actually cooled lava droplets)


bizarre (natural) lava formations



black beaches


Polar Beer and Helgi Sterki


rocky valleys


crystalline hills


More on culture and climate and stuff when Dauth stops annoying me to have a game .

[TheDR]

Looks epic!

That first picture, that's just silly. It looks like a bad Photoshop job where someone has stretched a hill

[Chyros]

TheDR, on 03 September 2012 - 21:32, said:

Looks epic!

That first picture, that's just silly. It looks like a bad Photoshop job where someone has stretched a hill

Trust me, it isn't . That's a big sulphur deposit at Namafjall, where the stench is so strong it's choking .

[Liten]

I have to tell you, I wasn't expecting the sheep