https://calderescapes.com The Calder's Global Travels Fri, 22 Jul 2022 16:00:33 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.3 https://calderescapes.com/wpcms/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/cropped-ce-site-icon-32x32.png https://calderescapes.com 32 32 https://calderescapes.com/posts/iceland-anniversary-trip-days-13-16/ Mon, 31 May 2021 06:35:27 +0000 https://calderescapes.com/?p=38322 May 31st Today we are headed to spend our final few days in Iceland in its capital city:  Reykjavik.  As we will require a negative COVID test to enter the United States, we have booked an appointment online – easy peasy and will do that the day before we fly.  Like our entry test, results […]]]> https://calderescapes.com/posts/iceland-anniversary-trip-days-9-12/ Thu, 27 May 2021 20:02:31 +0000 https://calderescapes.com/?p=38177   May 27th Today we began our drive to the less visited Western Fjords – well away from the ring road. But first we had the “troll peninsula” to drive around for a 186 km /  115 mi scenic drive in the sunshine (also not part of the ring road).  This apparently resembles the western […]]]> https://calderescapes.com/posts/iceland-anniversary-trip-days-5-8/ Mon, 24 May 2021 01:51:51 +0000 https://calderescapes.com/?p=38097   May 23rd Today after our breakfast of cereal, banana and a cup of tea, we started our day’s adventure with a walk around the small town of Hofn – mostly to see the views that we expected were amazing but were obscured yesterday by cloud cover and to check out the waterfront. We were […]]]> https://calderescapes.com/posts/iceland-anniversary-trip-days-1-4/ Tue, 18 May 2021 18:27:21 +0000 https://calderescapes.com/?p=37795   We put in a complete map of our route here – if you want a “clickable” one, please go to our home page under “Where We’ve Been”.   May 19th INTRODUCTION:  Iceland is a small island nation; but it is about twice the size of Denmark or about the same size as the state of […]]]>