Iceland : Goðafoss, Akureyri

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Happy new year everybody.

To start the new year, here is a little more of the Iceland travel.
On the way to Akureyri, we stopped to the waterfall Goðafoss.
It is called like that because when Christianity was declared the official religion in Iceland, the statue of the ancient gods were thrown in it.
We then follow the river Skjálfandafljót to go and see the waterfall Aldeyjarfoss but the road got to bad after a while wand we need to get back.
We arrive in the afternoon at Akureyri.
That's the first city we visited since the begining of the trip. After the big Europe tour, that's a change in our habits.

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Iceland : Whales, Mývatn

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After breakfast it's time to go see the whales in the Arctic ocean, I'm so excited about it. Just writing about it makes me extremely excited again.
The night before there was a big storm so the sea was far from calm.
Our boat is called Sylvía, it's not a tiny boat but compare to the blue whales we are going to see it is. We were already dressed up with three trousers and I don't remember the count of top but the crew of the boat gave us a combination to wear on the top of it.
At the begining I wasn't really sure but after receiving my first wave, I really appreciated it. I was standing at the very front of the boat, trying to see the whales despite the big waves and the water that was coming to me.
Sebastien was a bit more in the back, completely green and cold and asking me if I was ok. Bet I was, I'm front Brittany, I didn't have time to feel the cold and the watter. :D
At the end of the trip, I got a little sick, I didn't have to look for the whales anymore, that's probably why.
In the end we saw some water jet and the back of a blue whales.

After changing our wet clothes we take out leave to Mývatn. That's a lake with several interesting things to see in the neighbourhood. I had hear that the fly there were unbearable, that's part of the name, Mý means midge. But we didn't see that much of them.
There we went to the lake Víti situated in an volcano's old crater, that was kind of cool. Again we were surprised by the color of the water. There we had a bit of snow. We took a walk in the snow at Leirhnjúkur around the volcanic hills.
On the way back we stop to Hrevir, also called Námafjall. We can see smoke going out of some small rocks and even boiling mud.


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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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