European Countries
This is the 3rd day in Iceland. What should have been the highlight of this trip became the least interesting day. “F” roads were not opened and my last minute hopes that laugar would be open for driving dampened. I mentally had a plan B for day 3 to Thorsmork Read more…
That 350 Kms of drive is all for this. By the time we reached it was 8pm. Yes, that late. Acceptable if the destination for the day is that. There were very few hotels and I was even considering calling it a day after exploring Jokursalon. We had complete daylight, Read more…
As the little hike and the weather ate pretty much of energy, drove to a restaurant and ate and continued to Dyrhólaey. As we left Skogafoss, the scenary changes from flat road to long hilly roads and the mammoth Myrdalsjokull leaves nothing else to view. Its bad enough that we cant Read more…
This is part of South Iceland route. The drive got even better in another 30 minutes of drive on the same road. Skogafoss is originated from the notorious Eyjafjalljokull and also from the Myrdalsjokull glacier. As the Skoga river approaches the edge of the moor, the river runs over a Read more…
Day 2 Iceland: South Iceland The mother of driving experiences – that ever I would do again, in terms of the distance. It was little excess of 750 KMs of drive in just one day with all exploring mini hiking etc. I still smile when I write this. For a Read more…
22 June 2015 It was a cold morning. Really cold morning. I picked a brand-new looking Kia Sportage from Bluecar Rental and told myself – all will be okay. Iceland hadn’t realized its overdue for the summer. I had my plans ready and was closely following their road traffic websites and live Read more…
Nearly, I took nearly 3 months to let my mind to settle down before I started writing this. For a fortnight post my trip, be it a nap or a full night sleep, my dreams revolved around driving on cliffs with the spectacular views. It was quite a lot of driving in Read more…
The gulfoss gorge was formed by flash flood waters that forced their way through cracks in the basalt lava layers. The average water flow in Gullfoss is 109 cubic meters per second, but at times it reaches 2000 cubic meters per second. This flow is enough to fill 60 transportation Read more…
Muoattos Muragl & Marguns +++++++++++++++++++++ This is last leg of travel in Swiss. At the end of “Glacier Express” we settled in our hotel and took a small walk with the hope get some food. After visiting couple of restaurants, we found a perfect one where I could ‘think’ of Read more…
GLACIER EXPRESS +++++++++++++ 27th July 2009 We left Zermatt on 27th morning with the excitement of travelling 7.5 hours at the scenic train which is popularly known as Glacier Express. Glacier express passes thru various cities of swiss literally from west to east. There was not much the entire journey. Read more…
Matterhorn Paradise | Zermatt +++++++++++++++++++++++ Zermatt is a municipality in the district of Visp in the German-speaking section of the canton of Valais in Switzerland. A tiny village which is already on hill which we wont realize until we see from google maps. We reached zermatt 23rd July (2009) evening Read more…
Jungfraujoch ++++++++++ It was 24th July 2009. Having a neutral weather for the day didnt give much comfort, however with the hope that that might get better, we headed to Jungfrau from Interlaken. It was a 3 trian break from Interlaken. First to Grindlewald, next to Kleine Schieldegg a scenic Read more…