re: Has anyone here visited Iceland?

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What'd he/she say about the food? Good grub?

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Decent. Lots of seafood of course, and lamb. Something called Skyr too, which is something in between soft cheese and yogurt.

There's a pretty potent version of vodka they do, and this stuff has always made me jello of y'all's temperatures:



Wrong pic:




This stuff

brennivin

LMAO!
Iceland is NOT covered in Ice. It's very cold during winter but not at all during summer. Very beautiful and interesting country. Have been there twice and drove over much of it from top to bottom. Enjoyed it very much.

It's the only place on earth where you can literally have one foot on the North America continent and the other on the European continent. Very cool.

Many sights and interesting places to see.

i assume you mean this stuff? It's the national drink of choice. it's not that terrible but it aint good.

That's it. Didn't know it was a schnapp.

What's it similar to?

Thinking about going in March myself which is the end of the prime time to see the northern lights. All of my friends with money to travel are tied down though. May make it a solo trip.

Awesome

TIA for the pics.

How was the hakarl?

Pic 1: The Waterfall Godafoss...that's a pic that was in the OP

Pic 2: My friend laying above one of the falls of Dynjandi in the Western Fjords. Dynjandi has a main waterfall, then 7 other waterfalls below it

Pic 3: The greatness of Iceland. We were just driving, saw a cool little river so we stopped. Followed it up about a half a mile and saw a sweet 15 foot waterfall. Then another mile up was an awesome 25-30 foot waterfall we hiked to.

Pic 4: The main fall of Dynjandi is the top, smaller underneath

Pic 5: Harkarl. The rotten shark that you eat and chase with Brennivin. I wasn't touching that shite. My friend ate 2 pieces of the shark and didn't mind it, but they didn't have any Brennivin at the museum. So we eventually took shots of it in Reyk and it was awful.

Pic 6: The road to Seydisfojurd. It's in the extreme east, very out of the way. The Golden Circle turns south and we took a road (at about 11pm at night...this picture was at roughly 1am) and climbed high into a mountain and crossed an ice field. In the very very back you can see a town in the distance. That was out first shower we took in 7 days

Pic 7: Stokksness...It's on the south and it's awesome. The clouds are covering some amazing peaks.

Pic 8: I honestly forget the name, but it was like a 3 mile hike upward in a national park. Very crowded place but it was cool.

Pic 9: These purple flowers were EVERYWHERE in the south. Just miles and miles and miles. So we drove along a dirt road onto a black sand beach and did donuts. On the way out we stopped so I could frolic in the meadow

Pic 10: The town of Vik from above. It's amazing

Pic 11: This was some overlook somewhat near Vik:

Pic 12: Seljalandsfoss. It's cool because you can walk under it. My favorite Fall was Skogafoss because of its power, but you could walk right up to it

Pic 13: I have lots of pics of this, but we went snorkeling in between where the continents divide. That's actually a pic of the 2 continents