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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NaNoWriMo, NaNoFiMo, part 27 of "Demon soul"

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Today I managed to reached the 30000 words goal for NaNoFiMo.
I still have a bit more to write to finish the story but I also reached a part that yesterday again seemed very far away.
I'm really happy about today's writing and if you have been following the story so far, a big surprise is waiting for you in this part but I won't tell you anything more and I'll let you enjoy part 27 of the story.

Stats of the day 2654 words written bringing the total word count to 87503 words and the NaNoFiMo words count to 30823.
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Today I wrote a bit more than the 2500 words planed. I'm always writing more and I'm really happy about it. I can feel the end of the story coming. I'm a bit frustrated because I would like to finish it before Christmas and it's taking more time than I expected. Probably because that's my first novel and I didn't know or realize how ambitious in number of word it was when I planed it.
Anyway, I'm getting there and I'm proud of what has been achieved so far.
I tried to write a lot of stories before but never reached that far, and never came anywhere close to something I could call the end.
The NaNoWriMo experience was really great to show me that I could to it. When I started, I planned the 2500 words a day because I knew that I needed that much to be able to win the challenged.
I practiced a bit on an other story that I'm now planing to finish sometimes, but at that time I didn't have a dead line, that was just training and I didn't wrote regularly every day.
I found it very difficult to get to the 2500 words a day and wasn't sure to be able to make it in November.
But in November, I had friends trying with me, I had posted the story here and I had actually something to win, if not the challenge at least I would have beaten the length of the longest story I ever wrote. But I made it and now I'll finish that story soon.
I hope you are enjoying it even if the grammar and spelling of this first draft is not very good.

Stats of the day : 3079 words written which add up to 84849 words in today and to 28169 words for NaNoFiMo.
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I didn't wrote anything yesterday, so I had to catch up a little today.
I managed to write 4330 words which is pretty good for a day even if I managed to do more at some point. I really like that part as it's still in the demon world but different from the previous day. I'm also glad that Sahel is making friends with some demons of his age, living with human or even vampire or angel must not be easy for him everyday.
I think Taram and Torin are pretty cool, they made me laugh when I started to think about them. I also like how the things turned up today and how Sahel is learning a lot from them about the demon world. I also like that I managed to link some part with some flash back from the beginning. I'm happy of today's work and I hope you'll be happy reading it too.

Stats of the day 4330 words written bringing the total word count to 81770 word and the NaNoFiMo word count to 25090 words.
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