Iceland : Dettifoss, Ásbyrgi

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The way to Dettifoss is really long, but that doesn't really matter because after that we can almost say that we have been on the moon.
Dettifoss is the most impressive waterfall in Europe. We can see the water at the bottom being projected up after the fall. Falling in there should be pretty painful, it's better not to try.
We then walked along the river Jökulsá á Fjöllum to go to the other waterfalls Selfoss and Hafragilsfoss. On the way we collect some volcanic red stones.

We decide to continue our travel to Ásbyrgi, it's a canyon with the form of a horse shoes, that's really impressive too. According to the legend it's the trace left on Earth by Odin's eight-legged horse.
We finally arrive to Húsavík where we will spend the night in the car due a storm.


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Iceland : fjords, fishermen, waterfalls

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In the morning, we decided to go to the swimming-pool.
That's always a good idea when you are in Iceland and I highly recommend it.
Going out of Höfn we took a tunnel during 1300m under a mountain that different from what we have seen so far.
We then drived along the fjords to reach Djúpivogur. It's a small village where we took a break before continuing our road to Stöðvarfjörður and then the "Iceland fishermen" harbour Fáskrúðsfjörður where we visited the museum about the French fishermen who were coming to fish in Iceland from Brittany.
That's part of my own history as I'm from Brittany.

Not to far from Hengifoss we meet some reindeer. Sebastien didn't notice them but I'm really good with that sort of things. I'll tell you about the seals latter on.
The first waterfall is called Litlanesfoss, we can see Basalt columns around it that remind of Giant causeway.
We then go to see a strange house called Skriðuklaustrur with grass on the roof. It is closed because it's late.
We then go back to Egilsstaðir for the night.

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Iceland : the way to Höfn

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On the way from Jökulsárlón to Höfn, we arrived at Mýrar where we decided to try to go to the glacier Skálafellsjökull.
We stopped near a mountain and walked for a while, we didn't manage to reach the glacier too far away but we found an lake.
We tried again later to take a road to the glacier Flaájökull, that we hoped will allow us to go near the glacier Vatnajökull.
But unfortunately again, we meet a river.
We finally arrived in Höfn and found a camping.

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NaNoWriMo, NaNoFiMo, end of "Demon soul"

Today I really wanted to finish this story, I was feeling so close to the end I couldn't stop until it was done. I wrote more word than I ever wrote in a day. A total of 5790 words. Now I have a huge feeling of achievement. I know I still have to read everything again as I never did during the writing and that I will have to make a lot of correction but I'm glad I managed to finish it before Christmas as I had planed.
If you liked this story you will be pleased to know that I will start a new novel in January. I have still a lot of ideas for a lot of new novel.






Stats of the day 5790 words written adding up to 93293 words in total and to 36613 words for NaNoFiMo.
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