A small glimpse of our 2.000km bicycle trip around Iceland in April-May 2024 | @BiciCats
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Before our adventure in Iceland even started we first needed to get there. Flying would probably have been the fastest, cheapest and easiest, but taking the short route is not exactly our style. With a policy of never doing things the easy way we decided the best mode of transport would be a ferry. Specifically Norrona, a passenger vessel sailing between Hirtshals in the north of Denmark and Seyðisfjörður in the Eastern Fjords area of Iceland.
We knew the journey wouldn’t take us through calm waters. On both legs of the voyage, from Denmark to Faroe Islands and from Faroes to Iceland, the forecast was storms and high wind on the North Atlantic. So, stocked up on food and drink for the next three days we set foot aboard Norröna @Smyril_Line sailed towards the dark clouds. We didn’t know what to expect, having never sailed through rough waters before, but what we got is seasick. Well, one of us did.
So, Renata spent the trip running from deck to cabin, enjoying herself, the beautiful views and all the amenities the ship had to offer, whilst Mateusz spent his time splayed out on the cabin bed, pale faced and decidedly not having the time of his life. Neither ginger nor store-bought motion sickness force fed by Renata helped, but at least the cabin was warm and comfortable, but that was soon to change.
Turns out, while we were ‘enjoying’ our time at sea, eastern Iceland was ravaged by snowstorms, as is typical of icelandic spring. On arrival we saw the port town of Seyðisfjörður covered by a rather thick layer of snow, all the more worrisome, considering getting out of town required us to climb over a mountain pass…
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