My Travels - Iceland 1998 - 1.day

14.August 1998

I started my first day of holiday traditionally in my work. Our bus had to go afternoon. I had so much work and I required to close some open tasks. But it had also some advantages. My boss took me to work with company car from Stupava, and he also took me before Istropolis, from where had to go our bus. It took me some time to collect all my things, but at last I moved all baggage on small wall before Istropolis. In short time arrived also Boris, and after five minutes also Hilda and Emil. They had most baggages from us, therefore Hilda's father took them with car. We grouped all our baggage on one place, and started to look after our bus. Bus wasn't still here, but we found next adepts on Iceland here. Young man from a near group started to talk with us, and he acknowledged us, that he is going also on Iceland. Emil dismissed for short time, but suddenly he returned back with 4 cans of beer. We drank our beer, and Hilda made our first photo from this holiday 3 men with beer in hand waiting for a bus. Slowly also other people from tour to Iceland started to meet. And also people from another tour to somewhere on south mixed with us. We were doing some jokes about alternate tours, if our bus didn't arrive. But soon arrived yellow Karosa bus, with registration mark of Moravia city Roznov pod Radhostem. We were at first surprised with older type of bus, but we inserted all baggage to bus and found our seats. Our Bubo guide Palo informed us, that only small part of our tour started from Bratislava. Next people will board in Brno and Prague. We were surprised second time, our bus already looked optimally filled.

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With optimism we ejected from Bratislava at 15 o'clock to Iceland. In Brno we boarded only a few other participants. We were waiting intense on last wave in Prague, where had to board largest amount of participants, together with our main guide. We were in Prague 10 minutes before 19.hour. Boarding rest of participants together with baggage took a hour, and we were staring on quantum of baggage vanishing in bus. Here we also met our guide. Our first impression wasn't very good, but in short time we recognized that our guide Hynek is our man. After leaving Prague, Hynek started with broadcasting of our local radio (microphone) channel radio Reykjavik. Hynek informed us about actual state of our travel, and also read us interesting info about Iceland. Radio Reykjavik gained shortly big success. Our way continued very fast. Our driver Franta was old professional of all roads over Europe. Near of German boundaries we had fun, while observing local prostitutes. We had only problems on customs with one participant. Young guy worked in Germany before, and according to computer he didn't paid some penalty. After long discussions, we assembled 2000 DM for caution and we continued. After finding the best position on seat I slowly asleep.

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