After about 3 hours of walking I found camp in a spectacular place overlooking the Hvalfjörður, just north of Reykjavik.
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I decided to ease into my hiking in Iceland adventure by doing a Workaway for the first month. I'm staying in a beautiful town called Akranes with a lovely Icelandic family. I'm working part time in exchange for accommodation and food, and I'm able to test my camping/hiking equipment on my days off. So far only my jacket and sleeping pad are a big failure 😁
The Hubba Hubba tent and phantom sleeping bag have held up in below freezing conditions, so that's a relief 😅
Here are some photos from my first week in Iceland.
A video and some photos from Peramola, Spain:
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We stayed in this place for nearly two weeks last month, in a fantastic free motorhome parking area. It did smell like shit (literally), but it is beautiful and close to some great hiking trails 😊
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We stayed 2 weeks in this amazing place
Peramola, Spain. A wonderful motorhome parking spot. Beautiful views, great mountains and hike trails around, quiet. Smells like shit, literally, but a wonderful place overall.This video is also a testing for the new camera I (Tio) got, a DJI Osmo Pocket 3. Second hand, small and really good. Will replace my webcams too, not just my main camera.
It is a long video but we loved this place.
One of my favorites from Beuda, Spain, on a spectacularly clear night. The brightest dot is Jupiter.
Wouldn't it be amazing if people focused on the things that connect us- the stars, the universe, the creation of atoms, the Earth, life, evolution, the interconnectedness of it all- rather than on the silly beliefs that separate us, or on the self-centered desires for wealth and power brought about by a corrupt system run by lunatics..
War should be considered a complete absurdity, a failure of the human species. A shameful, primitive practice. A loss from the very start.
So long as there are wars we cannot consider ourselves an intelligent species. We've gotten so far in understanding the universe and advancing technology, yet we've gotten nowhere in applying that understanding to our society as a whole. We remain a tribal, primitive society, only now with more powerful weapons and more violence.
What a shame.
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#war #notowar #nowar #stars #astrophotography #nature #universe #jupiter #nightsky
Day 3 hiking in Alta Garrotxa: videos.trom.tf/w/qBqskfFp9XYxs…
I woke up after a very cold night, cooked buckwheat and soy meat, then lost the trail again 😁
Here are some pictures of the Alta Garrotxa and the night sky at the Talaixa refuge.
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Day 3 hiking in Alta Garrotxa
Day 3 on the Alta Garrotxa: I woke up after a very cold night, cooked buckwheat and soy meat, then lost the trail again :D
The best perk to working as a divemaster turns out to be meeting friends who invite you to do cool things like flying! 😁 Big thank you to Yair for taking me up in his paramotor for the most incredible flights of my life! This video is mostly from my first flight over l'Estartit (Spain), the Medes Islands, and the Montgri Castle. Incredible to see it all from above!
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Edited with #kdenlive
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Flying over l'Estartit, Illes Medes and Castell del Montgrí
Enormous thank you to Yair for taking me flying in his paramotor over l'Estartit, the Medes Islands and the Montgrí castle (and elsewhere on the Costa Brava! 😀) This was one of the most amazing experiences of my life!
We've had to stick around the Girona region lately due to some doctor's appts, but luckily we found this gem of a place. Espai Natural de les Guilleries-Savassona, just south of the Pyrenees. Amazing place for hiking! And here we found a fantastic free motorhome parking area that even provided free electricity, so we're staying warm this winter 😊
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A fossil forest near Verdeña, Castile and León: videos.trom.tf/w/cEAj926jd21e1…
Miserable cold and rainy weather, but still worth the nice little hike to see the imprints of 250 million-year-old trees 😊
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We found a fossil forest
San Salvador de Cantamuda: We found a fossil forest and the weather was cold and rainy. Nothing very eventful. Just a few more days of our motorhome adventures. But super cool to see these imprints that are many millions of years old. A book of earth :)
From that time we found snow :) videos.trom.tf/w/aSny2DpTqgRxu…
In Fuente Dé, Picos de Europa National Park.
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We found snow :)
Fuente De, Picos de Europa. We took a cable cart to see the top of the mountains. What amazing views! Looked like a volcanic mountain with ice tops :). We also hit our motorhome again :(.But overall our experience in Picos de Europa was fantastic!
Sotres, Asturias: videos.trom.tf/w/7wo6HXbkj86AT…
Sotres is the highest village in the Picos de Europa National Park. A bit tricky to get here on the narrow winding road, but well worth the trip! Sotres is so beautiful that in 2024 it got an award from the princess of Asturias 😄 It's also famous for its blue cheese and is the starting point of some spectacular hiking trails in Picos de Europa.
#spain #travel #motorhome #RV #Europe #Asturias #vanlife #vanlifeeurope
Sotres - a wonderfully beautiful town in the mountains
Can you believe this is not Switzerland? We went for a day to this beautiful place just to see how it is. Sasha also found an abandoned villagge and some cute cows. Picos de Europa is now on fire, and it is such a shame because it is a wonderful natural place.
The Cares Trail, Picos de Europa National Park: videos.trom.tf/w/iyEMCZAfNjNZH…
An amazing pathway carved into towering limestone cliffs high above a turquoise river, connecting two small villages in the mountains of León and Asturias. This trail makes you feel so small, yet contaminated with awe. We found goats, waterfalls, tunnels, and snowy peaks in the distance. A truly spectacular trek.
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Cares Trail - The best place we visited
If there is one place that we liked the most, it was the Cares Trail in Picos de Europa. Amazing trail between huge mountains. You feel so small, yet contaminated with awe. We found goats, little waterfalls, and saw snowy peaks. This is a place we must go again to!
From the province of León, Spain- A big bench, a beautiful drive, great free motorhome parking, and amazing hiking :)
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The most beautiful place we parked at
Acebedo - close to the Picos de Europa, beautiful parking place, great hiking, so relaxing and wonderful. This is the number 1 best motorhome parking spot for us. We also got to experience how it is to be fully offgrid when half of Spain was without electricity we did not notice a thing, having solar panels and satellite internet. We could probably survive a zombie apocalypse :).We hope to get back to this place!
Some photos from another amazing cave in Spain: Cuevas del Aguila, just west of Madrid.
This one looks quite unique as the harder iron-rich rock in the cave is of a much darker, redder color than the bright white speleothems made of calcium carbonate. Well worth the 11 euro tour!
Here is our video about it-
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Cuevas Del Aguila - a wonderland :)
This cave looks so out of this world. The white of the calcium combined with the "rust" of the rock make up for a unique landscape. Very memorable! We paid 11 Euros each for the tour and it was well worth it.