Wednesday, September 13, 2006

C'est Fin

Home, finally. Well back in Canada atleast. Staying in Ottawa for a week or so to recupperate, process photos and relax. Returning to Calgary September 21, 2006. Faced with unemployment and living with my parents probably until I find another job which is very saddening. Enough about my problems. I have more stuff to post so keep coming to look, it will mostly be pictures with captions. Including disgusting hostel pictures and the photo essay, entitled "What Not To Wear, Europe 2006". Here are some pictures I wanted to post earlier but never had the time.

A view from behind a waterfall in Iceland, the lava plains in the background.

A hike in Iceland.

Typical Iceland budget accomodations, they convert schools in to hotels in the summer and the gymnasiums act as hostels. It was actually quite comfortable.

A rock on the cost of Iceland that was home to a large puffin colony. Unfortunately, it's too far away to see any of the puffins and my camera lacks a powerful zoom lens.

This is a typical view in southern Iceland. You can see hay bails wrapped in plastic, they do that there for some reason. I asked the kids that took us horseback riding why but they just said thats the way they do it. You also see some farms scattered in the low lands. That is a glacier in the background. You can see why they raise so many sheep in Iceland, sheep like climbing that kind of terrain. Also no trees, there are almost no trees in Iceland.

The great Skogarfoss, I think. You can see small people in the foreground to imply the scale.

A delicious sandwich I got from a nice shop called Paul in London, there are other Paul's in Europe too. Look at all that Camembert, it's hard to believe I lost as much weight as I did when I was eating stuff like this.

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Don't get a job. Don't unpack. Start walking to Calgary. See where it takes you. As long as it's not Winnipeg you're doing well.

Love those photos. That waterfall one is cool.

Anonymous said...

Agree with Kyle on not settling down.

I commonly see hay bales wrapped in plastic in rural Ontario and Quebec. Sometimes they're individual round bales, othertimes it's an extended tube running for many meters. I don't know much about farming at all but always was interested in this.

The sandwich looks phenomenal.

If you do go on a Gump walkabout, keep up the blog.

nak_slim said...

Ha, easy for you two to say. No living vicariously through me! And d, a little bird told me your a VP now so I doubt you even write these yourself you probably have a secretary - sorry "executive assistant" - doing it for you.