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Thursday 9th of June – Heimsenda
>> Fitjar in Mosfellsbaer
Ingvar on horse back
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Thursday 9th of June – Heimsenda
>> Fitjar in Mosfellsbaer
Ingvar JR on horse back
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Thursday 9th of June – Heimsenda
>> Fitjar in Mosfellsbaer
Maria on horse back
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Break at Fjarborg stable area
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Break at Fjarborg stable area
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Friday 10th of June – Fitjar >>
Thingvellir
Prisca from New Orleans joined us this day. Here she is with Anna
Björk
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Friday 10th of June – Fitjar >>
Thingvellir
Ingvar having lunch break
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When the guys were riding Prisca, Anna
Björk and I took a trip to the old
parlament area at Thingvellir
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Saturday 11 of June – Thingvellir
>> Skorradalur, Indridastadur
Here we are at the lovely sand...
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Ingibjörk and Ingvar JR taking a
break
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Anna Björk and her dad Benjamin
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Anna Björk goes horse back :)
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Anna Björk is having lunch in the
great weather
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Driving this 4-wheel machine is fun!
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Sunday 12 of June – Indridastadur
>> Grimstadur
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Benni, Ingvar and JR is ready to go
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Stone tastes quite ok...
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Benni puts the reins on Ofelia
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Benni on his favourite mare Sossa
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Ofelia is lifting...
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Lunch break
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We had to walk over the Hvitavallaru
bridge
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Anna Björk is waiting for her dad
to arrive
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This flower - Lupine - is very common
in the Summer time on Iceland
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Monday 13 of June –
Grimstadur >> Kolvidarnes
This dayEinar, the father of Ingibjörk joined us. He is 74 years
old and still going strong!!
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We had to walk with our horses through
this path
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Kaldarmelar and the small round mountain
is "eldborg"
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Einar has made the trip!
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A hot tub is perfect after a long day
on horse back
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We staid at Ingvar's and Ingibjörk's
lovely Summer house - near the great jökull
Snaefellsness
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The evenings on our trip was prefect -
blue sky and warm
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A view of the powerful jökull (glazier)
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From now we had to wait for "ebb"
so we could go shopping in day time.
It was so sunny we had to give Anna Björk this sweet hat
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and she go these play tools from Ingibjörk
and Ingvar – she played with it all the time
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Playing in the warm sun
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Maria and Bennis newborn foals: Prince
Valliant and Isabella from Karastödum. The brown 1 year old foal
is Isafold from Nordurgröf
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Tuesday 14 of June – Kolvidarnes
>> Skogarnes
This day we started to ride on
the great beaches. We had to wait for the flod to pass out and we
ride out on the sand.
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It was a lot of water to pass through
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Benni is enjoying the trip. This day
we could ride together as Ingibjörk
was taking care of Anna Björk.
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A view out on the beaches after the water
has gone out
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Arrived at Skogarnes. Here we came in
contact with the farm owner Thraustir and Gudridur
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Benni and Ingibjörk is doing the
washing up
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Ingibjörk is reading a book for
Anna Björk
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Qutie pie...
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Every evening we were playing Rommie
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Picking up and putting back the candle
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A great view of the jökull
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Wednesday 15 of June – Skogarnes
>> Trödum
We had the honour of having Traustur guing us on the right track.
It was quite tricky as it could be rather deep sea on some places.
When we had finally reached the BIG beach he rode back again.
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And finally we have reach the perfect
day. The beaches - white like in any warm tropic country. It was totally
amazing to ride on this fantastic sand.
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And look at this view, with the poweful
Snaefellsness jökul
- can you come closer to heaven?
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Our trip has come to an end. Thursday
16 of june we brought the horses back
on this beach up to the summer house.
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17th of June - the Icelandic Independence
Day. Iceland was under Danish flag
for many years. This day 1944 the country became indepentent and all
icelanders
is celebrating this big day.
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Saturday and back home again. The Summer
temperature is still warm so we
could have our breakfast outside.
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Anna Björk enjoys her breakfast.
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A great trip but still nice to be back
home...
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