Iceland
August 3, 2026 Snaefellnes Peninsula Working on it .... will finish after dinner 😁 Today we explore the Snaefellnes Peninsula, circling from the north coast to the western tip and along the southern shore. Legend holds it that Christopher Columbus spent a winter at Ingjaldsholl, where he heart stories of lands to the west ---- possibly influencing his later Atlantic voyage. The first stop of the day was at the Bjarnarhofn Shark Museum. The family who owns the museum use to fish for shark, now they get sharks that have been inadvertently caught up in nets. The shark meat is processed and put in a box and allowed to ferment for several weeks. Then it is hung to dry. August 2, 2026 Sod Houses, Vikings and Horses Today we drive through Skagafjordur, one of Iceland's most prosperous agricultural regions. One quarter of the regions population live on farms and the number of horses outnumber people. This is Iceland's horse-breeding heartland. We have a couple of stops...