Icy Reykjavik

We arrived at the cabin hotel; Reykjavik, Iceland at 2am Saturday morning. It was -3 degrees and gustily like Wellington. The crisp air was refreshing and at the same time, ear numbing.
Icelandic water is known to be the best in the world as it does not contain additives such as chlorine and is free of contaminants and heavy metals.

We spent Saturday on the Golden Circle Tour. It is a journey around the outer region of Reykjavik. You can also purchase a CD with audio commentary of each location. During the tour, we visited waterfalls, geysirs, a crater and a historic village that has been excavated to uncover its political history. On Saturday night, we went on a Northern Lights Tour but unfortunately the sighting was very faint and impossible to take a photo of.

We indulged in a relaxation session at the blue lagoon. The sulphuric milky is a great treatment for the skin. After 4 hours, it was time to head back to the cabin. Although we did visit the Hallgrimur’s Church, it was covered with scaffolding around the front exterior but inside was amazing as expected. Above the entrance was a pipe organ with 5275 pipes. By now, time was running out but we managed to see the Perlan and Government House.

Reykjavik is an amazing City with so much history. For all that are planning on visiting, I recommend you stay for at least 4 days.
Photos from Reykjavik can be viewed here

Sam





Kerio Crater







Look, waterfall








There she blows








Sunset








Blue Lagooon

Top Gear Live = Lame

I attended the MPH Motor show last weekend mainly because the crew from Top Gear were performing a live show. The cars at the show were no where near as cool as the cars from the British Motor Show. A lot of Audi R8’s were on display, it’s not very appealing when you see 20 bog standard R8’s in one room. There was however a Koenigsegg that was full carbon fibre which I thought was pretty mint. The live performance was so crap that the wiggles would have been better to watch. Yes, of course they would have had to rehearse it a few times so they don’t stand there with nothing to say but during the 4 day event, they performed 4 sessions a day; that’s 16 sessions of the same crap. How can they possibly class this as live if they are doing the same act each time? Just for icing on the cake, this show is also performed in other parts of the world! Shocking init? They should have called it ‘Top Gear in Theatre’
MPH Motor Show gallery can be viewed here

Anywho, after the show we went to a pretentious club that screams ‘I am a wanker’. If it wasn’t for the birthday party, it would definitely have been a ‘My phone died and couldn’t get hold of you’. More alcohol abuse to end the night.

Top Gear Stunts - 5.9 MB

Sam




Carbon Koenigsegg








RX7 off FnF Toyko Drift








Car Football