My trip to Mallorca

Aquamarina hotel

Aquilla beach

Aqualand

Big slide

Gelatos ice cream

Mallorca airport

Iceland express

The restaurant

My trip to Barcelona

-Birna Ósk

My favorite place in the world, Stóri Múli

my favorite place

Stóri Múli

Stóri Múli is a farm that my family bought with four other families seven years ago. It´s located in the west coast of iceland, about two and a half hour drive from Reykjavík. At the farm there is an old house for us to sleep in, with six bedrooms, then there is an old barn and an old cowshed. Stóri Múli is the home for about 80 horses, of wich my family owns 14. 

During the summer time we spend most of our days at Stór Múli. We go horseback riding, swimming and sometimes salmonfishing in a river called Staðarhólsá, and a couple of weekends a year all the families come together for a work weakend, where everybody helps out with fixing fences, trim and prepare the horses for the winter. This last summer, me and my boyfriend spent the last weeks of our summervacation at the farm, taking care of the horses, horseback riding and doing most things that a regular horsebreeder does. At the farm there is a small shed that´s called “the partyshed”, we go out there almost every night after dinner, to talk, play music and sing.

The plan for the future is for all the four families to have there own house, to build a new horse stable with a small equestrian centre, so it will be easier to start training and preparing the youngest horses.

I chose this place as my favorite because it´s located deep inside a small valley, where there is no traffic or internet connection. The only thing to do is to be alone out in the country side, enjoying the nature and the company of my family.  Hopefully all of the future plans will work out, and Stóri Múli will become even more beautifull than it is right now.

Stóri múli

our fouls and mare

my mother and Gormur

The party shed

Beautiful place!

 -Guðrún H

Udaipur, India. Holiday from hell

My family and I have a tradition to travel together every year. This year we traveled to Udaipur, India. It all started when we flew from Iceland to Germany. That went well but it was very cold there. Next flight was from Germany to Moscow, Russia. The aircraft was terrible.

 It was a big plane but only about 12 passengers. The food was terrible. When we arrived at the Moscow airport the first thing i smelled was cigarettes. The smoking areas at the airport were just a taped circle on the floor and a little fan taking the smoke. I hate cigarettes. The flight to India was very long. About 6 hours. The plane was full of Indian people. I went to the bathroom on the flight and the seat was very dirty. We arrived at India. The heat was around 30 degrees Celsius. I cant stand the heat.

 The airport in India was very big, the culture there is different from ours here in Iceland. The men there have not so much respect for women, I felt that as soon as i arrived at the airport. Now we took a cab to our hotel, that was not exactly a hotel. It was called Hotel Minerva. My sister and I shared a room and our parents shared another room. Our room was small, the beds were very uncomfortable. There were big spiders there, I hate spiders. it was hard to go to sleep at first but I got used to it. In our room was a water toilet, thank God. But the showers were bad. The hot water lasted only for a few minutes and we had to fill a bucked with water and scoop it over us. That took a long time for me.

On the streets there was a lot of cows, dogs and people. The traffic is very dangerous, I have never been so afraid in my life when we took a thing called "tuk tuk" around town. Everyone is honking at each other and shoving. I felt so bad for the animals living on the street. I saw one dog with a tumor on his leg, he could barely walk.  And the cows, eating the garbage on the ground.

One night we ate at a restaurant called Ozen. The menu looked delicious. I ordered a banana curry. That night when we were going to sleep i felt a little bad. My stomach was aching and I started sweating a little. I ran to the toilet. I had food poisoning. I started throwing up a lot!. But that was not all, i had to vomit. I took the bucked that we used for showering and threw up. Now I was very dizzy and calling for my mom. My sister helped me. When i was finished I could barely go to bed. The next day I was very ill. Only thing I could eat was some salted chips and sprite. The next two days went like this. 

Udaipur

 

 

tuk tuk "car"

 -Guðrún H

A holiday from hell, fighting and raining.

In mars this year, mars 15th to be exact I took a trip to Alicante with my boyfriend, his best friend, Jón and his girlfriend, Bryndís. We took off to the airport at 06:00 am. It was very dark and raining. On our way to the airport the bad luck of our trip began, when we had been driving for 20 minutes I realized that I forgot my passport. So we had to turn around get the passport and drive very fast to the airport. When we arrived it was 15 minutes till boarding. We ran through the airport and got on the plain.

The first day in Alicante was nice. The weather was great so we went to the beach. But the next day it was no sun, of course it was quite hot but no sun. We were rather angry because we wanted to tan by the pool but we decided to make the best of this situation, therefore we used that day as a shopping day

The next four days we saw no sun so we had to endure that.We could not get any tan those few days. It rained a little bit so all we could do was party and shop. However this trip was not supposed to be about shopping.

Finally when we saw sun we spent some time by the pool for a few hours and then went to the zoo. That evening we went clubbing but that was not as fun as it was supposed to be when Jón and Bryndís started fighting so much that they didn't even want to be together that evening so I went clubbing with her and the boys went together.

2 days were left and we had have 2 days of sun and tanning. The evening that was supposed to be the main clubbing night went all wrong because of some stupid fight. Me and my boyfriend thought it was just a temporarily fight but they were mad and pissed off at each other for a few weeks after the trip.

The last 2 days we tried to get them to resolve things but they kind of did for a few hours while we were at the water park but that evening they started fighting again.

This trip was nothing like it was supposed to be and we learned maybe next time to have a bigger group together so things like this doesn't ruin every ones fun. 

-Birna Ósk 

Sunny day in Alicante

Rainy day in Alicante

My favorite place in the world, Albir.

I have traveled often however I have traveled a lot to the same places. In the future I am going to travel more to places I have never been be for. When I think about trips I have been on and my favorite place I think of Albir.

Albir is in Spain little outside of Benidorm. I have been there twice but I haven‘t been there for few years. However my parents og there every year. I would recommend it however I would not recommend it for a party trip with a group of friends, rather for a couple, older people or for a family. Those categories would be impressive if they are like me and like being at a little tranquil place, sometimes. However Benidorm is only like 15 minutes away from Albir. So for a group of people who wants to party and have fun but not stay at a hotel in the middle of the city life then it would be a great idea to stay in Albir and go to Benidorm when they want to party. The region is rather quiet and it has a nice beach. I have only been there with my parents but I would like to go there sometime with my boyfriend on a romantic trip.

People there are very nice and polite. The weather has been so great both times I have been there, not too hot but hot enough to lay in the sun. It is very peaceful and cozy place. I have never been to a bad restaurant in Albir. Of course there are probably some bad restaurants like anywhere else in the world maybe  my parents just know were to go and were not to go. In addition I have stayed at the same hotel both times because that hotel is great. It is called Albir Garden.

Albir is a great place to visit and acquire lovely memories.

-Birna Ósk

Albir Garden

The last day in New York

Our last day in New York city had arrived. We woke up pretty hangover from the night before but we knew we had to wake up and start packing. We had decided to leave for the airport at 18:00 pm. We had 4 hours to spend in the city.

We went to see the place where the episodes Sex and the city were filmed. There were a lot of women there to see where these girly episodes where filmed. We were so happy to see this. After seeing the Sex and the city filming spot we went to McDonalds and got some hamburgers and then went to Starbucks and got some frappochinos, it was so delicious.

We got back to the hotel, got our bags, checked out and took a taxi to the airport. We got to the airport about 1 and a half our before the flight. We shopped a little bit in the Duty-free store and sat down for one last drink in New York. On the flight home we were so tired so we slept the whole way.

This trip was amazing. We are definitely going to New York again.

-Birna Ósk

Here is a picture that was taking during filming of Sex and the city.