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On Saturday late morning, while I was sleeping deeply after Sónar Festival days
and crazy Friday night, my Polish friend called me to wake me up to go for a birthday
surprising trip. She was organising it for one of her Polish friends
that lives here for 14 years and I was invited to join them. So I get ready very quickly and in 30 minutes they come with a
car to pick me up and to take surprised colleague to a trip. What's funny, he
reminds me a little bit Marek Hłasko in his life style and behaviour. And what's more,
he was almost my neighbour from Poland, as he
lived in my district Saska Kępa
for a long time :)
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The weather was amazing, temperature around -1°C, extremely sunny and totally clear sky. We stopped at Skálafell ski resort first and we went up to see the ski lifts and stayed there for some time at the sun. The wind was quite strong but we managed to shelter near a place where sled dogs where waiting before the next run. What a big surprise! I had never expected to see them here in Iceland!! Jest like in Greenland, beautiful dogs sleeping in the snow, partly covered with snow while waiting for the next run.. AMAZING!!!
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| © triskel Þingvellirvatn |
Then we went to
Þingvellir National Park, a place where tectonic plates of Europa and America are divided by several deep rifts. This is also very special historical site where the first parliament in the world was founded in 930 AD. In Icelandic it's called
Alþingi what means
'all-thing', a general assembly.
Þingvellir (Thingvellir), the 'assembly fields', are situated approximately 45 km east from Reykjavik.
I was in
Þingvellir in July for the first time, then again in September but in
less touristic areas, and now in February I came here again. I really enjoy to be there, it has some special atmosphere and the landscape is just amazing. Not every day you can walk in a deep rift between two continents! Feels thrilling! Also, you can see beautiful
Þingvellirvatn lake in the distance. Just stunning place!
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We continued our journey to the south and decided to stop the car for a while near the river and sat in a sun under a bridge.. having fun and relaxing in the sun. Brightness and blue colour of the river, silence and sound of water.. great moment to recharge our batteries for the next week. Later we arrived to a restaurant in the countryside in
Reykholt, not far away from
Selfoss, ran by Polish people, where I had my first
Humar súpa (Lobster soup) in Iceland.. and the first one ever. Delicious! And for a dessert real chocolate with wiped cream. What a fantastic day!
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| © triskel on the way back to Rkv |
So we arrived to
Reykjavík after sunset, that's why I had not much time to prepare myself for the last night of
Sónar Festival.
To make the day even more unforgettable,
amazing aurora appeared just after midnight over
Harpa Concert Hall when the festival was still on. Tricolour ribbon was dancing behind splendid Harpa building and pulsing, changing from green to yellow and rose.. so incredibly close from us and beautiful!!!! The best aurora in this year :))
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