My Travels - Iceland 1998 - Preparations

It was one year after my Norway travel. But love to North remained me. This year I had big problem to choose right target for my holiday. I spend many evenings by reading catalogs from travel agencies. At last... Together with our party form English lessons we celebrated some birthday in coffee bar Propeler on bank of Danube. It was a good atmosphere and main topic of our discussion for this evening was our summer holidays. I had there catalog from travel agency Bubo. As we listed in it, our friend Hilda said. I would like to go on Iceland, is somebody here on point to go there with me? It was funny offer, and I agreed in joke at first with words "Why not". Later also agreed Boris, next member from our group. Later we spoke about other topics. But when we met together next time, we spoke about this topic again. At that time we spoke about Iceland without joking.

We also gain next member of our group. Emil, Hilda's boyfriend and our classmate from English lessons, decided to join us. We knew that we go to Iceland and we started to look for more information about this country. In travel agency we were informed that this travel is made together with Czech travel agency SEN. And guide from this agency was on Iceland many times and he knows Iceland very well. Palo Fellner, guide from Slovak Bubo travel agency will go with us more as tourist, because it was also his first travel on Iceland.

We didn't know so much about this island. It is on the North, and there are some volcanoes and icebergs. We didn't now either, if is Iceland Europe or America country. As main source of informations we used internet. I found out, that weather on Iceland is not so much cold, because around island is flowing Gulf stream. Main problem with weather will be a lot of rains. Iceland is island with the lowest population density in Europe. It is possible to see there volcanoes, geysirs, beautiful waterfalls and icebergs.

We decided to prepare well on rainy and cold weather. The best combination were Gore/tex, Polartec and Klimatex clothings. We also had to bought good sleeping bags and tents. We also had to prepare eating because it was not included in this offer from travel agency. Together with Hilda we were chosen to buy food. It was for me bigger adventure than lava field traverse. Try to imagine amount of food for 4 people for 17 days. I was desperate when I saw fast filled gigantic shopping cart. I was afraid that at least half of food we bring back. But later I was happy, that I said nothing, and I was silent. As I saw later we bought optimum amount of food, and we ate everything except of some littles. Cooker and pots provided Hilda. With transport we hadn't problem. Bus started from Bratislava. We were afraid only from shipping from Denmark to Iceland. To spend 3 days on sea, we had never experienced before. Luckily we had to interrupt our way on Faroe Islands, where we had to spend 3 days, and then continue on Iceland. We will see.

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Iceland and Faroe Islands Links

Photos Iceland and Faroe Islands 1997
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