Enough heavy words in the last post. Let the pictures speak.
Some of you might be wondering why I named this blog “hvalreki” und what this even means. Hvalreki is – how fitting – Icelandic and means “beached whale”. Nowadays this word is used as a metaphor for “having unexpected luck”. Back in the old days, when Iceland was in a constant miserable situation and especially …
I was on a camping and hiking trip through the outback of Iceland so that is why my post took a while and will be quite long. Two couchsurfers (if you don’t know this great hospitality and travelling platform check it out: www.couchsurfing.org) joined me, one American, Greg, the other Swiss, Anselm. We rented a …
I was on a party of Káj’s dad on Saturday, who is a DJ in Reykjavík and about to turn 40 (funny, I don’t think anyone in Germany would have his/her birthday party BEFORE the birthday). It really made me happy when Káj and Stefán agreed on taking me along as I was excited about …