Where am I going now?

Considering I'd never been outside the UK until last summer, this is all going pretty quickly!

Most people reading this will know I'm off to Iceland in about four hours from now. Well, I'm off to the bus station in town, to catch a National Express bus to London Victoria, then another one to Stansted airport, to arrive at a nice 8am or something. After that we catch the Iceland Air flight to Kaflavic (I think that's the spelling) and two short hours later, land in the land of Sigur Rós and EVE Online developers CCP! Note that I'm probably not going to see either of those, as Sigur Rós are currently on tour somewhere and I have no idea where the CCP offices are in Reykjavik.

I'm going with 7 other people: two friends, four brothers and their parents! We have to take everything with us to survive for two weeks... including tents, cooking stuff, and all that kind of thing. According to the campsite map there are plenty of showers, but how good they are I won't know until I get there! The first night we're camping near the airport at a campsite called "Alex", which is funny because our youngest camper is also called Alex, which ensures a large amount of mix-ups and hilarity will ensue. The next morning we're packing up and taking a Scout bus a couple of hundred miles to Akureyri, on the North coast. There we'll be camping for a week, before taking a bus back to the Reykjavik area and loitering around there for a while. I doubt there'll be accessible|fast|reliable|cheap (choose any) internet at the campsite, but if by some miracle there is I'll be sure to blog up some brief descriptions of my activities!

We're heading back home to arrive in Chesterfield at 3am on the 1st of August, where I'll be sure to spend the whole of the following week relaxing and recovering. I'm pretty miffed that our camera's card only holds 60 photos, so if I spot a cheap 1GB card in an airport shop I'll have to snap it up. Anything's better than 128MB! On a completely unrelated note, my boss got a new camera and it's pretty awesome. It's the one from the TV advert with the Golden Gate bridge, and it's really small and cool. I'd have bought one if I'd seen it before Saturday afternoon, our 3.2MP 128MB camera is starting to look a little dated.

Anyway, I'd best be off, packs to check, clothes to wear, planes to catch and all that. If I never post again you'll know why - I'm going white-water rafting!

Fyrirgefðu, hvar er klósettið? Því miður, ég tala ekki íslensku.

Bless!