Today we are sailing towards Akureyri, Iceland.\u00a0 It is gray and the wind is only moderate but there is a long swell which causes some discomfort to P.J.\u00a0 That\u2019s why she has not been writing much lately.\u00a0 I do hope she does get a chance to upload some pictures later.\u00a0 Tonight we cross the Arctic Circle and the sun will only go below the horizon for about two hours.<\/p>\n
We will be in three different Icelandic ports for the next four days.\u00a0 We\u2019ve been to Iceland many times now. \u00a0This is our second time on a cruise and we\u2019ve also made stop-overs in Reykjavik on our way to and from Europe.\u00a0 Every time I visit, I want more.\u00a0 I look forward to this visit, hoping for sunny weather for a change.\u00a0 Tomorrow looks to be promising.<\/p>\n
We went to a lecture by an Icelandic geologist.\u00a0 According to him, they repurposed their only prison, but they are building a new one!\u00a0 Right now there\u2019s no prison and there\u2019s a waiting list to get in.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Today we are sailing towards Akureyri, Iceland.\u00a0 It is gray and the wind is only moderate but there is a long swell which causes some discomfort to P.J.\u00a0 That\u2019s why she has not been writing much lately.\u00a0 I do hope she does get a chance to upload some pictures later.\u00a0 Tonight we cross the Arctic … Continue reading “July 6: On to Iceland”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-437","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","category-cruise"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pjgardner.com\/travel3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/437","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pjgardner.com\/travel3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pjgardner.com\/travel3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pjgardner.com\/travel3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pjgardner.com\/travel3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=437"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.pjgardner.com\/travel3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/437\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":438,"href":"https:\/\/www.pjgardner.com\/travel3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/437\/revisions\/438"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pjgardner.com\/travel3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pjgardner.com\/travel3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pjgardner.com\/travel3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}