Part 2 of our Icelandic adventures took us off the beaten track a bit to a remote log cabin for 3 nights of proper relaxation (and very well-earned after our snow-storm driving experience, but more on that later). We picked up our hire car in pre-sunrise darkness at 10am on Tuesday in Reykjavik and headed south for a relaxing spa session at the famous Blue Lagoon. After a solid few hours in the geothermally-heated waters we hopped back in the car and began our ...

So we are back on the road again and this time our journeys have firstly taken us to the capital of Iceland; Reykjavik. We landed on lucky Friday the 13th, which was very lucky for us as we got an amazingly cheap flight! After a 45 minute bus ride to town from the airport in the gathering 3:30pm darkness we copped our first hit of the welcoming 3 degree icelandic weather on our walk from the bus station to our apartment. After settling in to our very cosy and co...

Our road trip from Latvia into Estonia was an interesting one. Crazy driving has a whole new meaning now. 1. Major highways are all single lane two-way roads with no overtaking lanes and speed limits have no meaning, even though speed cameras were frequent. One is always expected to drive as far over in their lane as possible even if they are off the road in gravel to essentially create two lanes so that traffic can drive up on the inside and overtake you. 2....

We arrived into the capital of Latvia, Riga for our only day in the country before driving north east into Estonia. After checking into our accommodation and revelling in the cheap prices surrounding us again, we explored the small, slightly run-down old town (half the buildings worth seeing seemed to be covered in scaffolding) amid the rapidly changing climate of sun and torrential rain. One day was enough for us as we covered the entire old town and failed in ...

What was to be a five hour train ride from Oslo to Stockholm, Sweden, turned into 7.5 hours due to delays and constant stopping in the middle of no where. The frustration wasn't even compensated by fantastic scenery as we had helped for, in hind sight we should have flown. But we finally made it. This very large beautiful city is spread out over 12 islands with a surrounding archipelago. We stayed on an island next to the city centre in a hotel/hostel for three ...