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05/28/2004 10:17:05 AM · #26 |
Count me in...
I could help with planing and stuff in Iceland.
Got some connections with the Iceland Travel company and stuff like that.
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05/28/2004 10:19:14 AM · #27 |
*raises hand* Me me im interested!
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05/28/2004 10:36:29 AM · #28 |
| What's the weather like in Iceland in mid September? My wife and I are planning a trip to Switzerland and have been toying with the idea of flying Icelandair because they allow up to a seven day layover in Iceland with no penalty. Our thought was to spend 2 or 3 days in Iceland and then travel on to our final destination. The last price I got was from Boston to Amsterdam via Iceland was about $650-$700 each round trip. |
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05/28/2004 10:43:10 AM · #29 |
Originally posted by fstopopen:
anybody have a rough idea how much this would cost? I am in Oklahoma, but I have no idea how much a plane ticket would be. I would be VERY interested as long as my wife would agree to it.
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For the ones of you traveling from USA I think the only way to get direct plane tickets it via icelandair but also there is a possible to go through London with icelandexpress.
I would like to paticipate in this but I´m not sure how much time I can spend with you. Heiða please keep me informed.
It´s to bad that you probably will not be here next weekend because then I´m going to hike up to Icelands highest montain on Vatnajökull which is Icelands biggest glacier and covers around 1/10 of Iceland. |
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05/28/2004 10:46:12 AM · #30 |
Originally posted by SMW409:
What's the weather like in Iceland in mid September? |
There is no good answer to this. You can have 20°C and sunny but there is more likely that you´ll have windy rain and 5-10°C.
Often September is fine but there is a big change of getting a lot of rain. |
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05/28/2004 11:16:34 AM · #31 |
Originally posted by garlic:
Originally posted by SMW409:
What's the weather like in Iceland in mid September? |
There is no good answer to this. You can have 20°C and sunny but there is more likely that you´ll have windy rain and 5-10°C.
Often September is fine but there is a big change of getting a lot of rain. |
Septembers can be good. But expect any kind of weather, specially if you are going in the highlands. (snow, sleet, etc). I find that september here in the capital area are actually quite nice. Dryer and calmer than you would expect.
But June/July are the best, 24hr sunlight, and 12 hour 'golden hour' every day :)
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05/28/2004 03:17:50 PM · #32 |
| This sounds like it would be a fun trip. That is too far away to say with conviction that I can go, but I am definitely interested. That 12 hour "golden hour" is a landscape photographer's dream! |
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05/28/2004 04:02:26 PM · #33 |
| I work for the Flag Carrier in Iceland and if you are serious then I can talk to them and try and get you a discount (USA-KEF-USA only thought) I think a group of 5 would be minimum. |
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05/28/2004 04:49:59 PM · #34 |
Originally posted by heida:
No the weather is better in July its the only month we have summer,
Hey and this is a great idea, we could drive around Iceland and take pictures, I recommend 10 days rather than 7 then :D |
Do not bet on the weather in july you cant be sure!! |
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05/28/2004 05:49:29 PM · #35 |
Originally posted by eikidigi:
Originally posted by heida:
No the weather is better in July its the only month we have summer,
Hey and this is a great idea, we could drive around Iceland and take pictures, I recommend 10 days rather than 7 then :D |
Do not bet on the weather in july you cant be sure!! |
Ofcourse you cant bet on that in any month, but most of the time july is the best, at least the hottest,
This will be fun! :)
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05/28/2004 06:25:22 PM · #36 |
Sounds very interesting, we could even request an "Iceland" challenge here on dpc =)
I would probably join you over a weekend. I say tents rather then hotels... It's cheaper, brings us closer to the nature and much more fun. If it rains, we'll just need more beer =)
A couple of great Icelandic landscape photos: //www.mbl.is/myndasafn/ |
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05/29/2004 12:33:14 PM · #37 |
Originally posted by steinar:
I would probably join you over a weekend. I say tents rather then hotels... It's cheaper, brings us closer to the nature and much more fun. If it rains, we'll just need more beer =)
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Yup, tents are more fun, and the most interesting/beutyful placen don't have hotels near them. Anybody coming with me to Veiðivötn this summer? ;)
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05/29/2004 12:44:26 PM · #38 |
ijjj tents are for tourists....
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05/29/2004 05:50:19 PM · #39 |
Originally posted by Konador:
I wanna come :) I'll be 18 then, so my parents wouldn't be able to stop me, hehe :) If it's gonna be camping, how do we charge up our batteries? :P |
24 hours of sun use solar poweror this one.
Message edited by author 2004-05-29 17:51:05. |
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05/29/2004 10:45:51 PM · #40 |
Originally posted by faidoi:
Originally posted by Konador:
I wanna come :) I'll be 18 then, so my parents wouldn't be able to stop me, hehe :) If it's gonna be camping, how do we charge up our batteries? :P |
24 hours of sun use solar poweror this one. |
Charging batteries shouldn't be a problem. An hour break at a gas station, resturant or a farm. They usually love visitors =) And, as someone already posted, 12v to 220v convertors would solve the problem.
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05/29/2004 11:31:01 PM · #41 |
So is there a way we can come up with a ballpark figure on this? Say that hypothetically we have all the US DPCers leaving from either NYC or Baltimore (both have non-stop Icelandic Air flights). I come up with about $800 US for airfare round trip in July/August of this year. So add in $100 as a buffer. So $900 air, not including travel from other parts of the US. What else do we need to account for? Remember we want to aim for higher numbers initially so people don't get caught short. :)
Clara
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05/30/2004 01:07:10 PM · #42 |
Just wanted to share some video clips I found on the Icelandair website.
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05/30/2004 01:11:49 PM · #43 |
It's a while until July 2005.. I'm eager to go before that, what about the rest of you? Heida, is Sep<->December any good?
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05/30/2004 04:00:50 PM · #44 |
Originally posted by terje:
It's a while until July 2005.. I'm eager to go before that, what about the rest of you? Heida, is Sep<->December any good? |
Could get some snow in December then it could be nice, but most likely snow in januar-februar, I think summertime is the best time to look around here :)
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05/30/2004 11:29:54 PM · #45 |
Hang out with Arnit and Heida and the many other excellent photographers in Iceland? What an opportunity! I'll start putting my money in a jar! But only mid-late May or early August would work for me.
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05/30/2004 11:34:16 PM · #46 |
Originally posted by dsidwell:
Hang out with Arnit and Heida and the many other excellent photographers in Iceland? What an opportunity! I'll start putting my money in a jar! But only mid-late May or early August would work for me. |
Cool :D
I´m not sure which time would be better, mabey early august is better..
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05/30/2004 11:39:46 PM · #47 |
I thought June/July were the best times...longest days...warmer weather...
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05/31/2004 12:07:34 AM · #48 |
Originally posted by dsidwell:
Hang out with Arnit and Heida and the many other excellent photographers in Iceland? What an opportunity! I'll start putting my money in a jar! But only mid-late May or early August would work for me. |
Me and Heida live in the same neighbourhood. There are only couple hundred meters between us. It would be great if some of you guys from dpc would come to iceland. |
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05/31/2004 12:12:52 AM · #49 |
Originally posted by steinar:
Sounds very interesting, we could even request an "Iceland" challenge here on dpc =)
I would probably join you over a weekend. I say tents rather then hotels... It's cheaper, brings us closer to the nature and much more fun. If it rains, we'll just need more beer =)
A couple of great Icelandic landscape photos: //www.mbl.is/myndasafn/ |
Here are the direct links to the landscape photos:
Landscape
More landscape
And... my photos :) |
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06/09/2004 12:55:14 PM · #50 |
| I was checking about photo-ops in Iceland yesterday and read a review of a vacation package in Iceland. The guy mentioned that there are shelters on the roads (marked on the local maps) where approx. 12 people w/sleeping bags can sleep overnight for free. There's room to set up a portable stove, and he said he used thermal water for bathing. That sounds like it fits right in w/a DPC trip doesn't it? I would be very interested in going. The British photo mags say that Iceland is the greatest local worldwide for a shoot. Hope we can pull this one together! |
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