Travel blog by a global nomad
I was loitering outside the office, just before lunch, waiting for a lift back to the mess hall. I must have been standing out there for about 2-3 minutes when all of a sudden, I heard the sound of metal sliding just to my right. I turned and nearly jumped out of my skin – [...]
During my absence from this ‘wonderful’ establishment in the remote Far East Russia, a young bear, no more than 2 years old, began nosing around the office. Now, our office isn’t the most ’sealed’ of buildings – being a warehouse where half the upper floor space has been converted into office space. So, there are [...]
In ‘Far East’ Russia, its supposed to be a bad time to drive on the tundra and taiga roads in June. This would be because of the snow melt washing out the roads. Well, this year, it was a bad time in July – and more because of rainfall of biblical proportions instead!
I arrived in [...]
The final highlight of the Golden Circle tour or Icelands delights as far as I was concerned were the geysers – the original geysers that lent their names to spouting fountains of hot water all over the world!
As previously mentioned, we had blitzed past the geyser field on the way to Gulfoss, but hadn’t stopped [...]
The next stop on the whirlwind introduction to Icelands’s wonders, aka The Golden Circle was Gulfoss, an enormous and impressive waterfall.
Exiting Pingvellir, one of the places on Iceland where it is more evident that the surface of the Earth is indeed nothing but a thin veneer, we climbed up into more Icelandic farm country – [...]
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