2008 summer Iceland trip
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Club members confirmed are Adam, Neil, and Myself, Northern Dave I know its a
big commitment in time you will need 4 weeks to complete the trip.
Depart 23rd July 2008 from 700 miles to Scrabster, Scotland
Return 18th Aug 2008 to Hanstholm, Denmark, 700 miles to Calais.
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23rd July
We had a good journey thru scotland, weather was good, arrived at Scrabster 7pm
Tuesday, had a midnight drive along to John O groats.
Got on the ferry at 6am, then had a very rough crossing to the Faroes Isles, we
are waiting for high winds to die before we can leave the harbour. We got off
the ship for an hour to look arround the town Torshaven.
The ship has its own free wifi and mobile network hense we can do this.
Stopped here for a couple of hours on our way. Ferry car deck looks like a Land
Rover Dealer, belgiums French, Germans etc.. First 3 hours on the ferry were
quite rough, me Sean, and Neal had to take sea sick tablets.
john sean and Adam
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July 25th
1st Iceland camp site
We are here safe and sound, its sunny and blowing a gale. This place is like
another planet.
John
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July 26th
We have done the hardest drive ever today, but finished it off with a couple
hours soaking in a natural hot pool. The picture is of a local guy we were
chatting to he was at billing 2 years ago in the Red Range rover.
john
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July 27th
Yesterday was that hardest drive we have ever had, rock crawling huge sand
deserts, volcanic rocks river beds that make morcombe sands look small. Today
although easier was the last straw for Neils drop arm ball joint, lucky for him
we were going quite slow when it broke. Adam and i hammered it back on and loads
of cable ties around it. And we made it to the camp site! Phew if it had
happened yesterday he would have been screwed! There is a parts place in the
town we reached tonight.
John
Neils broken Steering
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Part removed.
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29th July
Askja camping
tonight
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Askja
Very windy volanic desert sand, the other guys say its like Morroco.
john
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30th July
Geysir,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geysir
is tonights stop, no signal for 2 days. We were stuck between 2
rivers for a day. Crossed one river that was deep, then next river was too deep.
So we had to camp at the river overnight until level went down but in the
morning it was still to high. So we went back to first river and a 50 mile
detour but we are here at last. We have been caught out a bit by the heat it has
been so hot its more like Cyprus than Iceland.
John
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31st July
vatnajokull
glacier
This was taken this morning near snaefell extinct volcano, it has to be seen
to be believed, its about 80 miles by 60 miles square.
It is totally awesome.
Photo taken on Nokia camera
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1st August
Reykyavic Monster truck
A Team Icelantic devision
Typical van in Reykyavic lots of yank 4x4 sitting on 44" Mickey Thompson
Baja,s
Imagine these driving around London.
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2nd August
At skogerfoss water fall.
http://www.south.is/attractions/Waterfalls/Skogafoss---Waterfall/46/default.aspx
We had to cross a few rivers the last one was between us and the campsite it
was deep and tricky, but a nice man in a large tractor showed us the way across.
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4th August
Mixing it with the ice
Today in Vatnajokull ice flow on wanna them car boats. This is iceburg
central watching the Glacier crymp one off!
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6th August
Due to technical problems with John's email
account, he is unable to send us anymore photo's.
We are back in the middle of Iceland weather is wet and cold lots of
heavy showers. All the vehicles are running okay,
no more breakages. A lot of the roads like wash boards and can shake your
vehicle to bits, so we have slowed down to
save the cars !
John
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