Mike and Michele’s Global Wanderings

This is just a quick post to update our blog on our last night in Iceland.
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On Saturday, June 11, we took a bus from Akureyri to Myvatn, a small village next to a lake. Unfortunately, we missed the 8:00am bus because the hostel owner told us the bus left at 8:30 when it actually left at 8:00. The next bus left at 10:00am but went through a small town more north called Husavik. This turned out to be a good thing because the drive to Husavik was breathtakingly beautiful and the town itself was lovely. We got to walk around it for 20 minutes before the bus left to our final destination of Myvatn. Here is a picture of Akureyri.

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Today we took a 45 minute flight to Akureyri, Iceland which is a town in the north. We went to our usual bakery in Reykjavik this morning where Michele can get 3 cups of coffee for 100 ISK ($1.70) ... [Continue reading this entry]

In the past 3 days we have done a variety of things in Iceland. We spent a couple of days wandering around downtown and getting in a fair amount of walking after we took the bus the first day ... [Continue reading this entry]

We are finally here in Iceland after a long red eye flight. A picture of the hut we are staying in can be found by clicking here. More pictures and commentary coming later....right now we want to eat ... [Continue reading this entry]