tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4023204082711630211.post5573123917897852517..comments2024-03-27T21:49:28.793+00:00Comments on A Yorkshire Memoir: Walking In Iceland 2: Road TripTasker Dunhamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17634612033217902946noreply@blogger.comBlogger35125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4023204082711630211.post-6542185810308627842021-07-18T21:22:29.823+01:002021-07-18T21:22:29.823+01:00Thank you. The pictures aren't perfect but it&...Thank you. The pictures aren't perfect but it's difficult to get good scans from 35mm slides - they don't compare well with modern megapixel digital. Tasker Dunhamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17634612033217902946noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4023204082711630211.post-28891610047122783912021-07-18T19:47:07.812+01:002021-07-18T19:47:07.812+01:00Wow, Tasker, that sounds interesting!
Iceland - I...Wow, Tasker, that sounds interesting! <br />Iceland - I saw only documentaries (and never imagined that it smells of sulphur...) <br />Absolutely beautiful photos with the rainbow! Brittahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10688373434576442657noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4023204082711630211.post-62905077211009376932021-07-17T16:17:42.880+01:002021-07-17T16:17:42.880+01:00From what I can tell, NZ and Iceland are similar i...From what I can tell, NZ and Iceland are similar in this respect, although I haven't been to NZ. Tasker Dunhamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17634612033217902946noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4023204082711630211.post-80528987220416805372021-07-17T16:16:45.518+01:002021-07-17T16:16:45.518+01:00I'm transcribing my notes bit by bit. Haven...I'm transcribing my notes bit by bit. Haven't really got started yet. Tasker Dunhamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17634612033217902946noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4023204082711630211.post-80759627381248640402021-07-17T15:58:22.408+01:002021-07-17T15:58:22.408+01:00I've never been. However the volcanic and unde...I've never been. However the volcanic and underground boiling earth are common to New Zealand with which I am familiar and which is also on the Ring of Fire. If I were to travel again (which I doubt) you are convincing me that Iceland should be on the short-list. Graham Edwardshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11196744947133121475noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4023204082711630211.post-49479531193503926552021-07-17T15:36:11.107+01:002021-07-17T15:36:11.107+01:00Iceland is a weird country -- very beautiful but s...Iceland is a weird country -- very beautiful but so otherworldly. We were there for just a few days back in 2011, and we had a great time, but we didn't see nearly as much scenery as you did. We need to go back!Steve Reedhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11684120060438252945noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4023204082711630211.post-38671784785158198212021-07-17T14:03:43.683+01:002021-07-17T14:03:43.683+01:00I Googled the story when I got back to the hotel b...I Googled the story when I got back to the hotel because I thought perhaps the guide told it to everyone to scare them. I discovered it was indeed true and by no means rare as the story referred back to others.Rachel Phillipshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16053924416805878169noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4023204082711630211.post-23713968739693805352021-07-16T12:40:59.731+01:002021-07-16T12:40:59.731+01:00I was being my usual flippant self in saying that ...I was being my usual flippant self in saying that the geysers threaten dissolve you, but the water is at a superheated temperature and genuinely dangerous. Tasker Dunhamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17634612033217902946noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4023204082711630211.post-12460817186830878432021-07-16T12:37:08.920+01:002021-07-16T12:37:08.920+01:00The photographs show only half of the waterfall. I...The photographs show only half of the waterfall. It has two steps. The left hand side of the lower step is visible in the first picture. Tasker Dunhamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17634612033217902946noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4023204082711630211.post-69814377579842589062021-07-16T12:34:50.457+01:002021-07-16T12:34:50.457+01:00Do. You're fit to do one of the cross-country ...Do. You're fit to do one of the cross-country hiking trips, and it's a bit more civilised now than it was. They even have toilets at the huts where you sleep. Tasker Dunhamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17634612033217902946noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4023204082711630211.post-22779104016362469772021-07-16T12:32:07.517+01:002021-07-16T12:32:07.517+01:00You'll see later in the journey that the walk ...You'll see later in the journey that the walk was in an isolated, uninhabited and at that time difficult to access area. The roads are better now and it is possible to self-drive to some spectacular place. Tasker Dunhamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17634612033217902946noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4023204082711630211.post-74011300049027685062021-07-16T12:29:50.952+01:002021-07-16T12:29:50.952+01:00It's the way I tell 'em.
Rachel, above, me...It's the way I tell 'em.<br />Rachel, above, mentions about people not realising how dangerous they are and falling in. Tasker Dunhamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17634612033217902946noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4023204082711630211.post-88656653244221483552021-07-16T11:40:32.348+01:002021-07-16T11:40:32.348+01:00This really makes me want to go there myself.This really makes me want to go there myself.Librarianhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05704656564078750607noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4023204082711630211.post-52556999208387912372021-07-16T10:58:22.824+01:002021-07-16T10:58:22.824+01:00I thought that I commented. If we can take our tra...I thought that I commented. If we can take our transatlantic cruise back, Iceland is one of our stops. I'm very excited about it, and now that I've seen pictures, I'm even more excited. What a wild country! Debbyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09531125606268748793noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4023204082711630211.post-83335228759569976902021-07-16T10:26:07.803+01:002021-07-16T10:26:07.803+01:00Whilst looking at some particular gruesome looking...Whilst looking at some particular gruesome looking boiling water bubbling by the side of a path I was told that a tourist a few weeks before had fallen in and, needless to say, died. On some of the islands these pools of water bubbling away were numerous and naturally just taken for granted by the locals. The rest of us gathered round them to photograph, point and go oh and ah, like idiots. Rachel Phillipshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16053924416805878169noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4023204082711630211.post-89634041522807474242021-07-16T10:04:28.296+01:002021-07-16T10:04:28.296+01:00I thought of Iceland as a land that was not yet pr...I thought of Iceland as a land that was not yet properly formed - still in the infancy of its geological journey. I liked your use of language in "... subsiding into witches’ cauldrons of angry boiling water which gurgle ominously". Looking forward to Part III.Yorkshire Puddinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06019673884543913089noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4023204082711630211.post-15891666025603311952021-07-16T10:00:42.653+01:002021-07-16T10:00:42.653+01:00Memories also based on the notes I made at the tim...Memories also based on the notes I made at the time. <br />When I've been awestruck watching astronomy programmes about the geological processes on other planets, what you see in Iceland and similar places makes it obvious that these same processes take place on earth too. I agree, that is quite frightening. Tasker Dunhamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17634612033217902946noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4023204082711630211.post-66126498232287097542021-07-16T09:55:56.880+01:002021-07-16T09:55:56.880+01:00I think the Azores are also at the junction of tec...I think the Azores are also at the junction of tectonic plates, which would explain it. Tasker Dunhamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17634612033217902946noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4023204082711630211.post-69944665877306926242021-07-16T09:53:52.448+01:002021-07-16T09:53:52.448+01:00It looks small but I don't think it was especi...It looks small but I don't think it was especially dangerous. Tasker Dunhamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17634612033217902946noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4023204082711630211.post-39938877105610352852021-07-16T09:53:17.056+01:002021-07-16T09:53:17.056+01:00As mentioned to Debra, the slides are very dusty a...As mentioned to Debra, the slides are very dusty and I've had to spend quite a time removing all the fuzz. I wish I'd had a better camera - it was only a Zenith E. Tasker Dunhamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17634612033217902946noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4023204082711630211.post-3819050251117594162021-07-16T09:51:44.105+01:002021-07-16T09:51:44.105+01:00Yorkshire Pudding said in his account of his trip ...Yorkshire Pudding said in his account of his trip to Iceland that it's like watching the earth being born. Tasker Dunhamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17634612033217902946noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4023204082711630211.post-68728283919186546052021-07-16T09:50:49.926+01:002021-07-16T09:50:49.926+01:00We just drove there without much background inform...We just drove there without much background information, so I don't believe we knew which was the Law Rock or Lögberg. I'm not convinced it was even marked then. Icelandic is a very old language, as its alphabet suggests, e.e. Þingvellir. Tasker Dunhamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17634612033217902946noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4023204082711630211.post-85004529956612044612021-07-16T06:43:42.364+01:002021-07-16T06:43:42.364+01:00I can see why the country left you with such memor...I can see why the country left you with such memories, very dramtic but also frightening.thelmahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00934860502828923562noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4023204082711630211.post-75391896298818632702021-07-16T04:58:27.973+01:002021-07-16T04:58:27.973+01:00Reminds me of the Azores, boiling, bubbling therma...Reminds me of the Azores, boiling, bubbling thermal pools and steam rising out of the ground. Rachel Phillipshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16053924416805878169noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4023204082711630211.post-63353031243096334652021-07-16T04:44:59.566+01:002021-07-16T04:44:59.566+01:00Your photos are beautiful! I can't imagine wal...Your photos are beautiful! I can't imagine walking on that small ledge above the falls. I doubt if I'm brave enough for that. That trip must have been an amazing experience for you!Bonniehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17738727252267659979noreply@blogger.com