We had rented a car straight from the airport, so it was easy to grab a coffee and get out of town. We headed straight for Geysir. As a child, I had learned all about Old Faithful in Yellowstone, but this was going to be my first up close and personal. And as luck would have it, it was the original Geysir ever discovered in the world! Hurray for adding new superlatives to my list- oldest Geysir- check! It was big and impressive as was the waterfall and sur...

After a short overnight flight that was way too bright- Iceland Air felt compelled to give a northern lights display for the ENTIRE flight- we arrived in Reykjavik. It's a very pretty and very small place. We wandered around and did the Reykjavik thing- ate hotdogs and drank hot beverages! Apparently hotdogs are a big thing here. We were intrigued and then sorely disappointed at the results. We pretty much saw the whole city in a day and even squeezed in t...

We're sitting at the Dublin departure lounge waiting for our very delayed flight, so this seems like a good time to get caught up. Once again I'm finding it odd how little they notice who comes in and out of this airport. The woman at the Air Canada check-in actually seemed so confused by our passports that she asked if we were twins! We spent four nights here and had a fantastic time. We did a lot of the big tourist things- a day wandering aimlessly, the Gui...

Not surprisingly, I really didn't want to wake up this morning, but we had a date with the Connemara, and this time we knew exactly where to find our morning caffeine fix. Our tour started with us being told that everything would be done in reverse as result of the snow and difficult driving conditions; weather luck has not been on our side so far! We drove through the Inagh Valley en route to Kylemore Abbey. The terrain was entirely different from yesterday's...

It's almost one in the morning and thanks to the jetlag, my earlier exhaustion has given way to a childlike refusal to go to sleep. And so I blog… Today we took a tour down the coast. We woke up early only to find most things closed, but where there's a will there's a way, and there is no such thing as an early morning without coffee in my world. The bus was comfortable, and the tour guide was informative. We got to the bus later than most other tourists (...