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We are done!   33 days, 25 paddling days, 8 weather days, 1620 km, 65 km average… Those are the numbers which just don’t say much about the experience and impression we’ve got…but I’ll take my time soon to update the rest of the trip and edit and upload some pictures! A slide show will […]

Hi, there!   We are weatherbound again… :-(( If someone asks me later what was the hardest part of this trip…for me it were those days off due to stormy weather…I felt like a bondaged racing horse…not that we are not paddling over force 5, but when it comes to 7 or more, better stay […]

Hi! This is Freya again…   Sure, we are not looking for internet every night, as usually lighthouses on headlands don*t provide much of that luxury, but on Monday night we needed to turn into the small village of Bakkagerdi to spend obviously two or three days weather bound. It is really stormy here! Force […]

Hi, this is Freya writing…   Eventually after 9 paddling days we headed into Siglufjordur at the North coast to resupply with groceries, charging batteries and typing our first update…we were just PADDLING and out in the bushes so far! Sorry for the communication trouble at the beginning of the trip, but OUR e-mails from […]

Well, people might say I’m a spontanious woman…but it is actually a bit less dramatic as Derrick wrote about it on his blog :-)) My decision to go around Iceland was born at the inspirational place of the Anglesey Sea Kayak Symposium 2007.   I was twice at that symposium, 2004 as a bloody firtst-time-novice […]