My friend Kevin was stationed in Iceland a long time ago, at an American air base in the southeastern part of the country not far from Höfn (pronounced, more or less, “Hup”), a small harbor town adjacent to the Hornafjörður fjord. Unfortunately, his year here was largely limited to the main airport in Keflavik, the… Read More Day 189: circle in the snow
Producing power is the same as it ever was: you need to find a source of energy that can be made to do work. Geothermal power, as the name suggests, relies on heat from the earth. The earth’s core is quite hot, but it’s a long way off – thousands of miles below us, in fact,… Read More Days 84-90: water flowing underground
With summer school over and some of my classmates preparing to head back to their home countries, it was nice to get a visit from two former classmates from days gone by. Mattie and Susan, both fellow Georgetown Law grads, came to Iceland for a week of fun and adventure. We got to spend an afternoon… Read More Days 48 & 49: auld lang syne
Within a couple of hours’ drive from Reykjavík are three major landmarks: Þingvellir National Park, the Geysir geothermal area, and the spectacular 200-foot waterfall Gullfoss. They’re part of the “Golden Circle” tour and they usually wind up on every tourist’s itinerary because they’re so easy to reach in a single day. But it’s been over… Read More Day 26: the Golden Circle
