{"id":29050,"date":"2022-07-25T06:44:16","date_gmt":"2022-07-24T20:44:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michaelandpamstravels.com\/?p=29050"},"modified":"2023-01-25T07:43:25","modified_gmt":"2023-01-24T20:43:25","slug":"skagi-iceland-%f0%9f%87%ae%f0%9f%87%b8-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelandpamstravels.com\/?p=29050","title":{"rendered":"Skagi, Iceland \ud83c\uddee\ud83c\uddf8 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Date: 23rd July 2022<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Travelled: 210 kms from Hofs\u00f3s to B\u00fa\u00f0ardalur<\/strong><\/strong><\/strong>  <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Visited:  \u00deingeyraklausturskirkja and \u00deritapar  <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Stayed: Camping B\u00fa\u00f0ardalur<\/strong><\/strong>, Isk2400, N65.10810, W21.76400<\/a> <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Budget: 59 days @ \u20ac102 per day<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Heard a bit of shuffling around and some voices in the early hours last night, not that it was dark. Looking out the window at 7 am I see we have several small tents around us. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

As I mentioned in our previously post Hofs\u00f3s has a pool and we plan a swim this morning, so it\u2019s an early coffee and fruit to be down at the pool when it opens. We get the Hymer ready for the road, the Hymer rumbles to life amongst the nylon dwellers, I wait till the calming clatter of its Italian diesel settles before rolling off to the pool. Revenge is best served early.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Our guide book tell us the pool at Hofs\u00f3s resulted after a substantial donation by two local woman. The horizon pool overlooks the fjord and the whole complex is magnificent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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We swim the required km or so before spending 10 minutes in the 40\u00b0 hot pool. I hope nothing energetic is required today, as I\u2019m done. We recover somewhat over breakfast and hit the road once again.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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It\u2019s a scenic drive as we leave the Tr\u00f6llaskagi Peninsula behind and cross in the Skagi Peninsula. We had planned a visit to a natural hot tub at Grettislaug, but we find the road is gravel for the 16 kms, so 32 kms of gravel doesn\u2019t make sense when we\u2019ve already had a swim today. We continue on to our next stop \u00deingeyraklausturskirkja<\/a>, still 6 kms up another gravel road but it\u2019s our first church of the day. The construction of this rare stone church (in Iceland) was mainly due to the efforts of one local farmer who would drag the stone by sled the 8 kms from the quarry across the lake H\u00f3p every winter once the lake froze over. It took 13 years being completed in 1877. The village that surrounded it is long gone, it just stands on the hill overlooking the lake.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Back on route 1 we drive another 5 kms to \u00deristapar. No longer a village, \u00deritapar is now a tourist stop over looking Lake H\u00f3p and 3 earth mounds<\/a>. It was here on one these mounds that the last public executions were held in Iceland (1830). I won\u2019t recount the story but it was only a week ago a friend had mentioned the book, Burial Rites by Hanna Kent. That book is based on the murder leading to that execution. The story is retold in brief on a series of information panels leading to the mound.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Back on the road we leave Northern Iceland behind and turn on route 68 for the Western Fjordlands. Some 35 kms later the 68 turns to gravel, it\u2019s rough and the Hymer is not enjoying it and either are we. I stop and chat to a local who tells us this section is 30 kms of gravel. So we turn around and drive the long way around. Another 110 kms later we call it a day and find a campsite at B\u00fa\u00f0ardalur on route 60.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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So it\u2019s been a long day\u2019s driving and we\u2019re a little disappointed that we hadn\u2019t anticipated the road conditions as well. We manage a spot in the campsite which is full as a sardine can. That was our day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Michael + Pam<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Date: 23rd July 2022 Travelled: 210 kms from Hofs\u00f3s to B\u00fa\u00f0ardalur   Visited:  \u00deingeyraklausturskirkja and \u00deritapar   Stayed: Camping B\u00fa\u00f0ardalur, Isk2400, N65.10810, W21.76400  Budget: 59 days @ \u20ac102 per day Heard a bit of shuffling around and some voices in the early hours last night, not that it was dark. Looking out the window at 7 am […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":29071,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[141],"tags":[144],"class_list":{"0":"post-29050","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-iceland","8":"tag-iceland","9":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelandpamstravels.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29050","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelandpamstravels.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelandpamstravels.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelandpamstravels.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelandpamstravels.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29050"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/michaelandpamstravels.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29050\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30786,"href":"https:\/\/michaelandpamstravels.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29050\/revisions\/30786"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelandpamstravels.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/29071"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelandpamstravels.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelandpamstravels.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelandpamstravels.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}