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Away to Faroe

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Have my very expensive breakfast at the hotel and set of from the airport for BIHN Hofn Hornafirdi.  The weather is not great but it looks doable if we follow the coast.  The ground below is all volcanic lava flow, which on many occasions is really discernible.   It is a good thing that we did follow the coast as the cloud started to turn to mist and fog a few miles east of Vik.  Enroute we pass two beautiful water falls that I visited while on my cycle trip " Cycle with Schmeichel - Fire and Ice Challenge ". Due to mountains and glaciers on the left we are forced to follow the volcanic beaches below.   It starts to clear just before the Iceberg lagoon some 40 miles out from BIHN.  The approach and landing at BIHN was straight forward and the fuelling was efficient.  The man from the tower greets us and sells us his lodgings for when we return.   Customs clearance is straight forward and now for the cold sea crossing over to the the Faroe Islands.  At about 27nm

No Mosquitoes and No McDonald's

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Reykjavik is a great town, but boy is it expensive!  In fact so expensive that McDonalds pulled out in 2009. Iceland puts last ever McDonald's burger and chips in national MUSEUM... after country's final fast food outlet shuts down Breakfast at the hotel was $31 so I skip out on that and grabbed some Chocolate in town. Checked out the big church with the 595 pipe organ and listened and especially watched the organist play.  Hallgrímskirkja (Icelandic pronunciation: [ ˈ hatl̥krims ˌ c ʰɪ rca], church of Hallgrímur) is a Lutheran (Church of Iceland) parish church in Reykjavík , Iceland. At 74.5 metres (244 ft) high, it is the largest church in Iceland and among the tallest structures in Iceland. Had tea in town at $5 and had to wait for 20+ mins for them to make it.  Wx is great today but see in Scotland it is a little stormy. The good news is that I think it is going to move on.  Reykjavik possibly could be a cashless society as everywhere takes the