Category Archives: 2014-08: Biking in Iceland

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As the wind stayed in my favour and there was only few rainy moment, decided to try my luck instead of resting in the tent. My goal was to cross the two creek across the rivers… It was really nice … Read More »

What a night! Yesterday evening, I stopped cycling after it had begun to rain and after having reach the Crossing of the F910 & F905 in direction of the highlands.   The wind came at that time from south-south-east.  At … Read More »

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My first sunset in Iceland… With now 3 degrees Celsius. And I believe it will be colder… Good night! – Posted by Georgeshttp://www.ammado.com/community/149399 Location:Hringvegur,,Iceland

Enjoy that… http://youtu.be/cizWLZAG5Rw 😉 You really felt the horses on the ground! Cheers G.  *** Do you have the wish to help me helping others? Please visit: https://www.ammado.com/community/149399/donate http://Georges-Bike-Trips.blogspot.com (tiny dot cc / Georges)

The day started with some rain drops, but it had stopped before I was ready to start after breakfast. It was a good night: I could sleep until 8:30 ! 🙂 The position where I had place the tent was … Read More »

The day started with a new alarm clock: at around 5:30, the sheep started to make some noise… That was to early for me, so I turned myself around again.  The morning was quite sunny.  But to make it short: beside … Read More »

The first part of the afternoon was perfect: tail wind, full stomach… The road follows the river and is not to wide. Many cars seems not to be used to have a cyclist on the road, as they slow down … Read More »

The alarm clock was replaced by ducks flying around… I knew/expected to have head wind for the first km which than changed to tail wind when I got back on the road 1, which as seen yesterday makes a huge … Read More »

The day started as mentioned quite difficult: loud night due to neighbour and wind.  At finally around 13:30, I left the camping just a short time after two Spanish cyclist arrived from the east, 60km away.  With day temperature of … Read More »

Quite strong wind, always raining a bit and loud neighbour (I can’t imagine how/why so many times the car door was slammed)…. So first will be a coffea after long sleeping… And then decide if I stay one day longer … Read More »

Just enjoying a bath a trying to update the blog… Seems to be more difficult as hoped!

The best movie will follow later… Here two pictures and one first movie…:-)) YouTube Video – Posted by Georgeshttp://www.ammado.com/community/149399

When I woke up, the weather had changed. Unfortunately I was right: the wind had changed and got stronger… The first 40km where on the higher plateau, with mostly 90% head wind, which made my legs tired. And on top … Read More »

The highland continued with little lakes and green grasses. I landing dirt piste for small airplane was to be crossed and I was starting to search for a sleeping place. At a crossing, I had to solution: more over the … Read More »

L After the caves, the landscape was kind of a mixture of moon and lord of the ring type. Always going one-two meter up and down as well as turning around craters and splits. Finally, I arrived at a higher … Read More »

Finally I arrived at the caves where they found traces of people from over thousand years ago. Walking over those formation and thinking that there are empty rooms below make feel one special….

As the water was going to an end, I wanted to refill it. Glacier water can be drunken, but need filtration or sedimentation over night. So I took some water much further down than were it was milky white. The … Read More »

The trip was following the large glacier Langjökull up to over 600m altitude. Then I could enjoy a light ramp down and feeling the heat increasing. Some people went the 6km to the glacier, which I decided to by-pass. Later, … Read More »

After a wake-up with sunshine, the day continued to the north and up, with ascendancy of up to 12% and always head wind. The landscape was still very close to the one of the Andes… – Posted by Georgeshttp://www.ammado.com/community/149399

The decision of having a resting day was not bad at all as it rained something like 7 times… Not very strong, but enough to get wet. I guess my muscle could recover so that tomorrow will be again a … Read More »

– Posted by Georgeshttp://www.ammado.com/community/149399

– Posted by Georgeshttp://www.ammado.com/community/149399

Seems that not many pictures can be uploaded at once. I don’t want to waste more time for trying… – Posted by Georgeshttp://www.ammado.com/community/149399

– Posted by Georgeshttp://www.ammado.com/community/149399

The direction was still north-east to Pingvellir or Thingvellir (i’m missing the special character that looks like a P bit pronounced like th, so I’ll keep to the pronouncing). From Reykjavik or better from Mosfaellsbaer there is slow raising ramp … Read More »

The night at the camping was as expected: loud because two travel agencies brought their people at half past one in the night, driving. Even it was not allowed between 12am and 8am ;-( How ever, the light night seems … Read More »

My old friend…. YouTube Video and what happening when a bike is in a crowed place… YouTube Video – Posted by Georges Location:Sundlaugavegur,Reykjavik,Iceland

As early supposed and many times suggested, I will face my old on that island again (and again). I was just hoping it would not be so early! Today’s roughly counted 60km were >95% with front wind from full ahead … Read More »

Even the first round was fine……where I met the poor French guy, whose flight from Charles de Gaulle /Paris was canceled in the morning. With my girlfriend ;o) – Posted by Georges Location:Reykjanesbraut,,Iceland

Hopfully 😉 – Posted by Georges Location:Iceland

The main parts over the sea looks like that… With then a change. – Posted by Georges Location:Iceland

Nomen est omen? 😉 Nice seat… – Posted by Georges

Someone may call it weight optimisation. 😉 – Posted by Georges Location:

The task of the day:How to transform that into sometings that fits an airplane….and make the checkin! – Posted by Georges Location:Airport

Time as arrived… nearly is all is packed and in a few days, I’ll start towards the airport for pre evening check-in… We will see what I can expect from that beautiful island. come back soon!

The flights are now booked, so are the first and last nights of the trips: as close as possible to the airport to simplify the un- and packing of the bike & trailer. First test on trails were successful… here … Read More »