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Iceland August 2010 - Day 8: Varmahlid - Reykjavik

Today we said goodbye to our lovely summer cottage in Varmahlid. We would spend the last night in Reykjavik before we flight back to Germany tomorrow.
Thus we started a little bit wistfully at 11 o’clock and drove the ring road about Blönduos down in the direction of Reykjavik. We inserted in Hvammstangi once more an interstop and visited the seal centre. A small and affectionately furnished museum in the tourist information. If you have time you should take the time for a stop in this nice museum. Beside stuffed, different sea dogs and seals the visitor gets useful information all around the animal type. Another tip in the small town is the filling station in the end of the town. Here a really service expected us, very friendly Icelanders and one can eat well and favourably sandwiches or hamburgers. It is worthwhile to insert a short rest in Hvammstangi, even if this town lies in 6 km from the ring road.
Further we went afterwards in the direction of Reykjavik. We made a short stop for Bifröst at the volcanos Grabrok, directly at the ring road. Here you can hike to the volano and from there you have an impressive scenery.
The journey to Reykjavik ran quietly and we used the tunnel on account of lack of time again which is not expensive with 900 kr and shortens the distance about at least 1 hour. Who has, nevertheless, enough time, should drive round the fjord Hvalfjördur. In Reykjavik we  had some problems to find our appartment because it was in another building and they forgot the advice. But after I called the staff of the appartment and spoke with a very friendly Icelander, we reached for our apparment.

However, finally, we found the big flatlet and after we made ourselves briefly fresh, we still explored Reykjavik.
Unfortunately, I must say which resembles in the high-level season Reykjavik of any other city. A lot of loud youngsters, show driving by cars and a hectic rush which was very strenuous after one week in the north, nevertheless.
We stay in a nice bar ((Svarta Kaffid) in the main shopping street and there we ordered “Soup in Bread”. This bar we can highly recommend to you.  A great thing and the soup tasted really good. Moreover, we had a good view of many cars which crowded the narrow street Laugavegur to the show over and over again down. Much American Bleck which was polished to bright lustre and was held really in shot drove past. Corvette, Cadilac, mustang…. a whole series of cars thundered the street down.
Then at midnight we returned again in the hotel.

You are a creator

“You never get it done, and you cannot get it wrong. Life is supposed to be fun: you are creator, you are a focusing mechanism, and you are here in an environment that is very conducive to that. When you get hold of an idea, play it out for the pleasure in it. If you are doing it for any other reason, then you are not connecting to your Source Energy.”

Ester & Jerry Hicks

Burn the bridges

“We cross our bridges when we come to them and burn them behind us, with nothing to show for our progress except a memory of the smell of smoke, and a presumption that once our eyes watered.”
Tom Stoppard

No Such Place as Hell, Heaven (Part 2)

You can be in heaven (Oneness with All) and not know it. Indeed, most of you are.

This can be changed, but not by something you are doing. It can only be changed by something that you are being.

This is what is meant by the statement, “There is nothing you have to do.” There is nothing to do but be.

And there is nothing to be, but One.

Communion With God
Neale Donald Walsch
Page 148

Questions

“It is better to debate a question without settling it than to settle a question without debating it.”
Joseph Joubert, 1754 - 1824

Your dreams

“I have learned this at least by my experiment: that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life he has imagined, he will meet with success unexpected in common hours.”

Henry David Thoreau
1817-1862, Writer and Poet

(Deutsch) Sorgen

(Deutsch) Vergangenheit

(Deutsch) Weisheit

No Such Place as Hell, Heaven (Part 1)

Now I come to tell you this: There is no such place as hell. Hell is a state of being. It is the experience of separation from God, an imagining that you are separate from your very self and cannot be reunited. Hell is forever trying to find your self.

What you have called heaven, too, is a state of being. It is the experience of Oneness, the ecstasy of reunification with All That Is. It is the knowing of the true self.

Communion With God
Neale Donald Walsch
Page 148

Words

“Words do not teach at all. It is life experience that brings you your knowing. But when you hear words that are a vibrational match to the knowing that you have accumulated, then sometimes it’s easier for you to sort it all out.”

Ester & Jerry Hicks

Mistake

“Even a mistake may turn out to be the one thing necessary to a worthwhile achievement.”

Henry Ford
1863-1947, Industrialist

(Deutsch) Etwas böse

(Deutsch) Erfolg

(Deutsch) Zielsetzung

What Is God? What Is Love?

What is God? The eternal One Life underneath all the forms of life.

What is love? To feel the presence of that One Life deep within yourself and within all creatures. To be it.

Therefore, all love is the love of God.

The Power of Now
Eckhart Tolle
Page 155

Rule of Thumb

“Here’s a rule of thumb that will help you: If you believe that something is good, and you do it, it benefits you. If you believe that something is bad, and you do it, it is a very detrimental experience.”

Ester & Jerry Hicks

Iceland August 2010 - Day 7: Akureyri and Aldeyarfoss

On this day we planned a stay in the nice city Akureyri and the waterfall Aldeyarfoss.  Sunshine and pleasant temperatures welcomed the day.

We drove past on the ring road Akureyri first and further up to the yellow small house Fossholl with the Godafoss. Here we bent inwards on the street No. 843 and it now an approx. 50 km long journey on a grit runway expected us. However, this was in better state than expected and thus we made headway very well. After we drove a very adventurous road we parked the car next to a signboard which informed us about a 2.4 km footpath to the waterfall. Nevertheless the footpath seems to be endless and I think we walked 4.2 km. Partially it was not easy to follow the little white signs during the area.
But then the beautifull Aldeyarfoss excused the long walk. In the mids of basalt there was the waterfall. And the Icelander  was right, it is a rather small waterfall, however, the surroundings makes him a right highlight.

After half an hour of amazement and taking photos we started the way back again. Then in Akureyri we made first of all with the tourist info hold and enquired the pelican crossing of the nice town by foot. Then we searched the botanical garden whose directions only confused and did not lead to the aim. Finally, we found him only by intuition. As a small tip: Of the sign-posting to the hospital follow the hill, because the botanical garden is at an angle towards.
Info boards and a really nicely invested garden expected us. Here beside Icelandic plants one found a lot of other kinds from all over the world. Partially it is done research here after new plants which resist the conditions in Iceland.
Afterwards we went again back to Varmahlid.

Old

“I will never be an old man. To me, old age is fifteen years older than I am.”

Bernard Baruch, 1870 - 1965

Mythology

“I believe in mythology. I guess I share Joseph Campbell’s notion that a culture or society without mythology would die, and we’re close to that.”

Robert Redford