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Interesting, I thought they'd not bother about comfort there. Rough denim in combination with sweat can give you nasty and painful skin abrasions, even when wearing clothes underneath. When choosing a backpack its especially important to check the roughness of the straps and back padding, you don't want to find out that your backpack straps are digging through your skin like a chainsaw blade and your sweat is enhancing the pain like acid when climbing at some mountain top at 3500 meters above sea level. v

Austrian German is a lot like Bavarian German. Austrian German spoken in Tirol doesn't count though.

The inside padding in high quality tac vests is actually silky-smooth.

Thanks, I thought the photographer screwed up with the ISO settings.

Because your right hand is temporarily disabled you can't do anything fun? I played soccer when my right arm was in a cast due to my broken elbow. I went cycling and hiking with one arm.

Thats exactly what I meant. Thats why I don't get the ''gap'' hype.

Not getting the gap trend. Found this pic:

Lifting weights after two weeks of no exercise. Its like drinking water after 3 days in the desert.

A restaurant, ''Gamli Baukur'' in Husavik, the first settlement on Iceland, a small fisher village. This is a highly recommendable restaurant. I took the ''catch of the day'' which was monkfish. It tasted great. This monster is a monkfish. Reykjavik shipyard: And this street in Reykjavik leads to Baldur's Gate........Wait, what...? Fjords in the north-east of the island. Thunderstorm on the highland: The highlands, too harsh and barren for towns. Suicidal duck family: You would need some serious upgrades to the RV anyway. Namely flotation pontoons and outboard engine! Simply load the RV on one of these: I still need to go to New Zealand.....

I have him on ignore, guess I didn't miss anything important. Thanks! Its where icebergs break off from a truly huge glacier and drift out into the ocean, break apart and get washed ashore. A magnificent place and every photographers wet dream. Fortunately there was a big storm the day before so lots of ice was stranded on the black beach. And yeah, I've never understood why its so popular among the womenz to fry yourself on some random beach like a stranded whale and do absolutely nothing. Been there, done that. Never again.

Icelands people: Women: 90% blonde, glacier-blue eyes, many were as tall as me and I'm 185cm, and they all shared the same facial features, - high-ish cheekbones, rounded noses, and round faces -. Definitely a great place to find a lot of fashion models. The brunettes however looked different, also blue eyes but more oval faces, straight noses and harsh facial features. Most of the brunettes were extremely beautiful. Most of the women were in good shape despite the awful AWFUL very America-ish food sold in malls and stores. Also every woman in Iceland is wearing tight colorful leggings and loose shirt or light pullover. Even in low temperatures and rain where tourists were already wearing winter gear and freezing their butts off. Colorful leggings are the rage in Iceland. The men were very large and heavily built, most slightly overweight, but the majority was as tall as me. More brunettes compared to the female population. And sadly a lot of them are total hipsters, especially in Reykjavik. Reykjavik itself is a hipster city, I don't like it at all, I much prefer the more grounded small remote fisher villages along the coast. Or Husavik, its a lovely town. Also one strange thing I noticed is that even though I don't look like the typical Icelander the people spoke Icelandic with me until they realized that I only speak English. Never happened to one of my friends. Two of my closest friends accompanied me. A trip like that shouldn't be done all alone.

Thanks guys! I hope you are right. I met a girl who was the coordinator of a whale watching vessel in Húsavík, she was from Germany and moved there because she fell in love with Iceland on the first sight.

Aha, I had no idea what shaped the rock like that.

Everyone in Iceland is driving a heavily modified 4x4. And if you're planning on using any other road than the main road you NEED one of those. A Volcano, last active 30 years ago. The smell of sulfur there is overwhelming. Also bought a Puffin plushy as souvenir in Reykjavik, everybody in Iceland loves those adorable little birds. Saw some when I was whale watching, they are fun little animals. A typical Icelandic problem. The Jökulhlaup.

A sulfur ''smoker''. Dettifoss: The roads through the mainland are so remote, you can drive on them for 6 hours straight without seeing a single person or even a farm building. Better not have your car break down there. The Gesir. Pic taken at 2 in the morning. White nights FTW! Another one of those extremely remote regions of the country.

I'm back. Wow, after spending so many days in one of the most remote regions on earth using a computer and the Internet feels so very very strange. THis trip definitely changed me forever. I could fill a book with my experiences in Iceland, it was such a wonderful adventure trip, I drove around the island and took roads right through its heart, I've seen many beautiful and strange things. I don't want to bore you though, so if you have any questions about my trip just ask me. All I can say is I'm seriously thinking about moving to Iceland, I'm totally in love with Iceland, its people, and....and pretty much everything there. Anyway, pics. I made 7 gigs of pics so I can only post a fraction. Shot out of the window of the plane. Flying from the darkness into the light. My temporary home. Camping is not for the faint of heart, or for those with little experience and low budget gear. Even in summer temperatures below freezing, heavy winds and days with constant rains have to be expected at any minute, and the camp sites are very exposed. With little experience and anything other than top notch gear camping in Iceland can become a hell. Its definitely not a family camping trip in the woods. My ride, a Daihatsu Galloper There were lots of seemingly endless deserts of lava stones.

So, I'm leaving my warm and cozy country to go camping and sightseeing on that remote, cold and volcanic island that's located just a tad under Greenland, armed just with a small and light backpack filled with the most essential camping gear and my trusty camera. Hope the Nordic weather gods will be nice to the Austrian tourist and that they won't let the temperatures drop too far below freezing. If things go as planned I'll return in 14 days with a ton of cool photos! Verið þið sæl!!

I bet you can guess what I recommend to boost ones immune system? I've been sick only once in 9 years. Get better! And drink tons of water.

Went to the civil service to get a new passport. What can I say, civil servants are among the most basic lifeforms you are likely to encounter on earth. The didn't want to accept my passport photo because it was too dark and hat a spot on it, which of course was not my fault but a problem with their scanner and monitor contrast settings. Guess how long it took them to figure that out. Most basic lifeforms.

^ Always been a fan of this song. Brian Eno is awesome.