Checked into Gullfoss, Iceland.

#todo: photos + location in the same note. Currently photos are email upload only. Other possibillity is to derive location data from EXIF metadata

Spotted the Game of Spiky Chairs filming crew @ Þingvellir /cc Brennan Novak

Checked into a Grayline bus for the late evening golden circle tour — doing the touristy thing for once with the #family

Went whale watching, saw several dolphins, two minke whales, a load of puffins and several thousand unexpected jellyfish.

Comic highlight when the announcer tried to give us a sense of just how big blue whales can be…

“Imagine a basketball court, with a blue whale in. That basketball game… would be over”

Walked up Esja with family today, made it to the 780m peak:

Ah, a happy end to rather a traumatic night. And the moral of the story? Trust maths over Icelandic bus drivers.

A couple of days ago we (Vísar) went on a little trip up to Borgarnes for a meeting. Hopefully the journey details should be attached to this note, and I’ll get them displaying below.

The menu from a restaurant filled with wonderful stylised wood carvings of Icelandic legends:

This has got to be the creepiest photo of me ever taken:

Thanks a lot, hakkavelin ;)

Putting up bunting at Vísar with @briansuda

Adventure Duck:

Genius marketing: selling paper boxes of rocks for £4.25:

Sitting hacking in Stofan, Reykjavik. They seem to be playing a jazz version of Douce Dame Jolie #thisisiceland

Roots:

#iceland is green, white and blue:

Choice paralysis, or, bad distress signal design:

Can’t particularly recommend the soup at Fish and More (Reykjavik) — expensive but didn’t taste of much. You’re better off going to bergsson.is

The #randomchilies are growing super-fast in the eternal sunlight: