{"id":2497,"date":"2016-12-02T14:42:16","date_gmt":"2016-12-02T14:42:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.tanjathalmann.com\/?p=2497"},"modified":"2017-03-22T19:36:52","modified_gmt":"2017-03-22T19:36:52","slug":"adventure-in-the-snow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.tanjathalmann.com\/?p=2497","title":{"rendered":"Adventure in the snow"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Finally we got some snow as well. Even in Germany they had it earlier. Actually I expected this island to have much more of snow. But yeah. There is no climate change, right.<\/p>\n

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At one point I had to leave the village for a couple of days. The valley was getting very small and I had a very good reason. I got visited by my best friends from cologne. They literally brought the snow to Iceland. After they left a week later, the snow disappeared as well^^<\/p>\n

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First they tried to hitchhike after they found out, that they can’t rent a car without a credit card or 1200 Euro cash and I was worried not to see them at all. Because of the crazy snow. They got stuck in Selfoss, only one-two hours away from Reykjavik and asked me to collect them. So I did.\u00a0 <\/p>\n

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I felt to go on an adventure.\u00a0 Saturday I took the bus to Egilsstadir Airport and got a car via LungA school account. I found out that I don’t need a drivers license. I forgot mine at home (I hope… maybe I was sure not to drive in such conditions??) and the boy at the renting thing just said: „Oh that’s fine.“ I mean… I still had my international drivers license… so… I am not sure if I really could have driven without any license.\u00a0 But in Germany for sure the reaction would have been like: „Oh, that’s not good. We can’t let you drive without a license.“ \"IMG_1136\"<\/p>\n

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So I got the car and „googlemapped“ where I have to go while having breakfast at a fast food restaurant. We said that we would meet in H\u00d6FN. I only wondered that it was only 1h30min away. And I was happy. The snow didn’t stop. I was so scared and afraid because the car slipped a lot. So my average speed was around 15km\/h.<\/p>\n

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It took me 4 hours for 68km. 1km can be so fucking long… When I finally arrived in H\u00f6fn, I didn’t feel right. There was only one house at the cost. That couldn’t be. As I know that H\u00f6fn should have a busstop or something at least or a hostel. The address Udo sent me, was 3 hours away from my H\u00f6fn as well.\u00a0 \"IMG_1163\" \"IMG_1166\"<\/p>\n

I asked google again and found out that there are 4-5 different H\u00f6fn. (Later our icelandic students told me that this word means „harbour“) Fuck it. I just drove in the opposite direction I wanted to. I was north from Seydisfj\u00f6rdur, not in H\u00f6fn in the south. Damn you modern-clueless-hopeless-trusting-google human being.<\/p>\n

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So I had to stay the night in a guesthouse in the village I passed before I reached the wrong H\u00f6fn.\u00a0 I really didn’t want to drive over this mountain again. And it was about to get dark and I totally had enough of driving for that day.<\/p>\n

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I had to spent 7500ISK for one night and food. I got sweet bread, skyr, milk, some fruits and cheese for dinner. I was really happy. It was warm, big, had a bath tub and a bed. And I was not alone. My TV (final project) was with me. \"IMG_1194\" \"IMG_1192\" \"IMG_1191\"<\/p>\n

The next day I wanted to stay in Bakkagerdi first, because it didn’t stop snowing and I was too scared to drive. I only had a „normal“ car. Not one of these monsters with 4 huge wheels and much more power in the engine. But when I asked Lasse, one of our LungA Dad’s, how the road conditions are and I showed him a pic of my vehicle. He said, that its fine and the roads are ok. So I trusted him and wow. I reached Egilsstadir in only two hours. That was unbelievable. So I just went further and tried to reach the H\u00d6FN in the South. \"IMG_1202\" \"IMG_1196\" \"IMG_1211\"I really didn’t believe anymore to see my friends and they neither. But yeah!!! I managed to got there in the evening. Even I always had to stop and take pics of that hilarious landscape with my TV in. Or I had a break at view points with beautiful names like „Njardvikurskridur“ or „Eyland“. \"IMG_1215\" \"IMG_1213\"\"IMG_1233\"<\/p>\n

And the Environment changed all the time. I had everything. Snowstorm, snow with sun. Just storm.\u00a0 Just sun. Ice. No ice. Sometime I nearly felt like driving on a real street like in Germany (and of course I got caught by a flash light- that’s gonna be fucking expensive).\u00a0 \"IMG_1245\" \"IMG_1246\" \"IMG_1248\"Monday we drove back. I could relax. Udo did it. On the way we collected Katla in Dj\u00f9pivogur and stopped here and there. We arrived Seydisfj\u00f6rdur in the afternoon after 6 hours. That is quite good for 300 km. The last 100km we had crazy snow again. I was so happy to get back and be alive and had Udo and Line with me. And the car was really good. Even it wasn’t that monster truck.<\/p>\n

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I also fell a lot in this weather. Everything was slippery. But I didn’t get hurt bad. Just the normal pain. Yeah. I love this life!!!<\/p>\n

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Finally we got some snow as well. Even in Germany they had it earlier. Actually I expected this island to have much more of snow. But yeah. There is no climate change, right. At one point I had to leave the village for a couple of days. The valley was getting very small and I … Adventure in the snow<\/span> weiterlesen →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2458,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[100,354,244,356,357,353,226,351,347,355,352],"class_list":["post-2497","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-reiselogbuch","tag-adventure","tag-egilsstadir","tag-english","tag-final-project","tag-friendship","tag-hoefn","tag-iceland","tag-snow","tag-travelling","tag-tv","tag-winter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.tanjathalmann.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2497","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.tanjathalmann.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.tanjathalmann.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.tanjathalmann.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.tanjathalmann.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2497"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/blog.tanjathalmann.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2497\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2502,"href":"http:\/\/blog.tanjathalmann.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2497\/revisions\/2502"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.tanjathalmann.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2458"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.tanjathalmann.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.tanjathalmann.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.tanjathalmann.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}