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the winter kick-off // four days in iceland
Oh hi, hello! Remember us? I won’t bore you with tales of where we’ve been. If you follow us and watch our stories on Instagram, then you already have a pretty good idea. But we do have more than a few travels to share with you! So… please don’t mind if I backtrack a bit, to our four days in Iceland. Back in November. Whoops. I’m typing this as a surprise blanket of snow falls over London, courtesy of THE BEAST FROM THE EAST. How’s that for some over-hyped silliness? It’s actually more like an old, threadbare sheet of snow.…
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return to reykjavik // a few of my favorite things
This March, it will be 3 years since the hubs and I left New York for a 5-month trip around the world before our move to France. There were so many amazing moments from that trip, and while we honestly cannot declare any stop the very best, our week in Iceland is very close to the top. Naturally, a return to Reykjavik was very much in order. So, when my little sister said she was hopping across the pond for a weeklong visit to Europe with her boyfriend, we offered to meet them in Iceland. We figured we could spend…
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halló, reykjavik: our intro to iceland
Pre-Iceland, I had one stupid concern. I was irrationally worried that, based purely on the adjectives I’d heard to describe each country, Iceland would be like New Zealand light. Other-worldly, majestic, inspiring… New Zealand certainly fit the bill, so how would our intro to Iceland live up to that? Yeah, dumbest fear ever. Yes, there were a lot of similarities—green, rolling hills, sheep randomly crossing the roads, beautifully colored bodies of water that don’t even look real. But culturally? Totally, totally different. I mean, obviously. And I didn’t think it was possible, but if I really, truly had to pick…
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rtw rookies: the recap, the revelation & the full itinerary
Our full itinerary from five months on the road. We started in NYC, moved west, and learned... we're not very good at being traditional long-term travelers. At all.
