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We walked along the river to see the unique car elevator from the tunnel under the Elb River.
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Denmark
Driving north we followed the advice of pretty much everyone to just take the highway thru northern Germany and into Denmark. We did this thru the flat agricultural lands to Aarhus.
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Here there is a very nice campground that even has heated floors in the showers.
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From here we made for the northern tip of the country at Skagen, but we took the long way of course.
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To Iceland
Waking up in the bright sunlight I checked the time and was surprised to see it was 340 am! Because of that we were then packed up and on the road at 7 am in search of a coffee. From there we went to the ferry dock at 8 am to see about 20 bikes already.
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We were happy to see our friend Mike arriving from Bordeax.
https://c1.staticflickr.com/1/440/18...ab1ef122_c.jpghirtshals 24 by Sara & Daniel Pedersen, on Flickr They line you up outside the dock area until about 9 when you file thru the check in to the ferry holding area. https://c2.staticflickr.com/4/3750/1...1263f647_c.jpghirtshals 26 by Sara & Daniel Pedersen, on Flickr https://c1.staticflickr.com/1/389/18...4bf7d076_c.jpghirtshals 27 by Sara & Daniel Pedersen, on Flickr https://c1.staticflickr.com/1/386/18...a4a26e5c_c.jpghirtshals 28 by Sara & Daniel Pedersen, on Flickr |
Once the last few cars have unloaded we finally got on. You ride up to the second level, we turned around and they lined us up along the back wall, while the rest were lined up at the front. There are no wheel chocks or teams of crew to help you as shown on the video on the Smyril Line website, but we all managed to get the bikes strapped down.
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Once your bike is settled for the 45 hour trip to Iceland its time for the skye bar. Dan made friends with Torsten a Faroe Man, who supplied them with Faore 7.2% beer, whale meat, and whale blubber (not good FYI).
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Once we left the shelter of the coast of Norway there was a lot more rocking of the ship and you needed to hold the handrails, but the night’s sleep was not too bad. Lying down seemed to make the worst of the motion less nauseating. The only sights we saw were a few drill rigs in the North Sea.
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Faroes
Finally we sighted land the southern most islands of the Faroes.
https://farm1.staticflickr.com/381/1...7e9cb08b_c.jpgfaroes to iceland 2 by Sara & Daniel Pedersen, on Flickr We docked farther west on the large island of Streymoy at the capital in Tórshavn, briefly to exchange passengers and vehicles. https://farm1.staticflickr.com/416/1...7066be53_z.jpgScreen Shot 2015-07-03 at 12.35.48 PM by Sara & Daniel Pedersen, on Flickr https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3899/...c4963765_c.jpgfaroes to iceland 4 by Sara & Daniel Pedersen, on Flickr https://farm1.staticflickr.com/557/1...3850cf14_c.jpgfaroes to iceland 5 by Sara & Daniel Pedersen, on Flickr https://farm1.staticflickr.com/415/1...6f45119a_c.jpgfaroes to iceland 6 by Sara & Daniel Pedersen, on Flickr https://farm1.staticflickr.com/507/1...80c9437c_c.jpgfaroes to iceland 7 by Sara & Daniel Pedersen, on Flickr |
Then we continued thru the island chain with their steep sided fjords and cliffs.
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Iceland
After another mostly calm night in the North Sea we readied for the 730 am arrival. We watched our approach from the sky deck. Braving the cold and howling wind we saw our first view of the snow covered shores of the island and wondered what we had gotten ourselves into.
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We had already heard from other riders that all the central roads on the island were still closed due to snow and lack of melting after a very cold spring. It looks like the dream to ride the “central cross roads” of Iceland will not be possible.
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Getting back to the car deck we found that they had loaded the vehicles from the Feroes like a complex jigsaw puzzle. There were bikes, cars, and motor homes parked in all directions. Some were so close that the people could not get into them until the other cars had unloaded.
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