The Many Varieties of Icelandic Yogurt

by Luc-Rock Paquin on August 29, 2008

Iceland has quite an active dairy industry (I think they don’t allow the importation of dairy products, but I haven’t verified this) and we’ve been eating a lot of different kinds of yogurt here.

Here’s a little video that demonstrates a drinkable thick yogurt:

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Hot Tub at Apartment K

by Luc-Rock Paquin on August 29, 2008

As promised, here’s a video we did about the hot tub at our apartment. We’ve been using it pretty much every day since we’ve been here!

We’ll be posting other updates about the highlights of our trip later.

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The Strokkur Geyser

by Luc-Rock Paquin on August 27, 2008

We had a busy day today! Here’s a partial list of our activities for the day:

  • Went for a horse ride
  • Lost our horses while we were admiring sheep (we’ll tell you about it)
  • Saw the original location of the oldest continuous parliament in the world
  • Saw a powerful waterfall (Gullfoss)
  • Watched the Strokkur Geyser do its thing several times
  • Had dinner in “our” apartment with an American French teacher that was on our tour

Again, we have very little time to blog, but we hope you’ll enjoy the video of Strokkur in action below. Tomorrow, we’re flying to Akureyri to see a volcano and possibly some whales!

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Welcome to Apartment K, Unit B1!

by Luc-Rock Paquin on August 26, 2008

Yesterday was moving day. We have just moved to unit B1 of “Apartment K“, a series of apartments owned by a couple in Reykjavik. We’ll tell you more about it later. We have a busy day ahead of us today, visiting local museums, so for now, check out this cool video!

Thanks for all the comments on the blog (and all the e-mails!). We love reading them!

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Feeling Fine!

by Luc-Rock Paquin on August 24, 2008

Michelle and I just came back from the Victory Dinner, which was held at the Iðnó restaurant, with a wonderful view of a pond.

We were very quiet today. Michelle needed more sleep after breakfast, so I browsed the shops on Laugavegur for a while, but many of the shops are closed on Sundays.

We went to the Laugardalslaug public pool, where we spent most of time in a “hot pot”, which is a smaller pool with very warm water. It was very relaxing!

We also booked some day trips for the coming week. We’ll be doing the “Golden Circle” and horse-back riding on Wednesday, as well as a day trip by plane to Akureyri, the second-biggest city in Iceland (with a population of only 17,200) on Thursday.

We are taking lots of photos, but we don’t have time to post most of them right now, so you’ll have to do with just a few!

Victory Dinner

Victory Dinner

The view of the pond in front of the restaurant

The view of the pond in front of the restaurant

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