Newspaper Article on me skating across Iceland

Iceland on Skate Day 4 - 6

Day 4
Vik to Skogarfoss 35km

Day 5
Rest in Skogarfoss

Day 6
Skogarfoss to Hella 62km

Day 7
Hella to selfoss 30km

Iceland on Skate Day 3 Skaftafell to Kirkjubæjarklaustur

Vik

Day 3
Skaftafell to Kirkjubæjarklaustur 70km
Started off at 8am to Kirkjubæjarklaustur. Finally get to meet french couple cyclists cycling the same direction as me.Chatted up with them and continued our way together until i hit into bumpy road, slows me down alot than it slow the cyclists. It seem eternal skating on these bumpy road. i never seem to reach my destination. Arrived at Kirkjubæjarklaustur 3pm. along the roundabout, a french caravan stop me for pictures and told me that the next destination to vik is unpaved so i will have trouble skating. They offered me to Vik, so Why not.

Happy Face

Iceland on Skate Day 2 Jokulsaron to Skaftafell

Day 2
Jokulsaron to Skaftafell 60km

Woke up at 3am after 7 hours of camping at the beach. Decided to start early so i can have more time at skaftafell since there is light. In iceland, you will see lots of -fell and -foss. fell means mountain and foss is waterfall in icelandic language.

hit into pumping mode with a tail wind in first 10km. But soon the tail wind turns into cross wind when i turn into the mountains. Rain came pouring. In iceland, there is a saying if you dont like the weather, wait 5 minutes.

keep skating on and on,it seems i took the entire day to reach the destination Skaftafell but it is only 10 am. Seriously, the 24 hours daylight is affecting me. But good thing is i got all day to explore skaftafell and glaciers. bumped into the thai lady who i met in Hofn campsite and plus many others who i met along the way.

Iceland on Skate Day 1 Hofn to Jokulsaron

78 km skate from Hofn to Jokulsaron

Day 0
Arrive at keflavik airport, took a bus to reykavik then another day to Hofn. Infamous iceland weather arrive soon once i touched Myik bus terminal to catch a bus.to Hofn. Shocked to know the bus to Hofn just 450 km cost $100. Thank God i am skating back. Thought is a direct bus trip, it turn out to be several transfers. Not expecting a bus transfer, i dropped my wallet in the Bus 51 during a bus transfer. luckily it contained small icelandic change. Bulk of my currency and credit card is in my body pouch. arrive at hofn 12 midnight, camped at a campsite. campsite was closed, i just found a spot and camp.

Day 1 7am
Woke up and do my registration at my campsite to pay for last night stay. should have ran off instead of paying $10. Waited till 8am for N1 pettrol station to open to get my food supplies. Chatted with the people at campsites. Some of them i will meet eventually many times along the way. After all, we are on the same route, especially the Thai Lady i kept on bumping into her. Story later.

Jokulsarion Glacier Lake

Settled my supplies and charged my electrical stuff, ready to skate off. Roads wasnt that smooth. I have to keep looking for tiny strip of tarmac left in the narrow roads. Along the way, cars stopped to take videos and pictures of me. I am probably the next Iceland Attractions, surpassing the mountains and waterfalls. Even the drivers would stop to hand me water and snacks. this is so encouraging. I realised i dont need to spend money haha.

Stopped along the way for photo taking. Water streams are a good source of water for me to refill. Pure untouched icelandic water coming from mountains, it just cant get any fresher.

at 65km, stopped at Halls town. When i say town, it is just a couple of houses, accounting to populations probably to the number of fingers and toes i have. Ate traditional lamb stew and Arctic Char. Travelling, u dont have to suffer as a pauper. Scared myself to shit, i cant find my credit card. Having to lose my wallet the day earlier, losing my card in a seemingly expensive country will be a near apocalypse. Even the restaurant staff join in to help me search for my card. Eventually it is found in my knee pad.

Checked with the restaurant about the distance left to my day destination Jokulsarion 13km away. But that 13km seems so far away Everytime, i thought i have arrived, it turned out to false hope. finally, reached Glacier lagoon. Man, that is what i came for. I skated 78 km, seeing the icebergs floating is just breath taking. That is why i do my skate treks, I just have to earned to get a view of these through my hard skating. is just so sweet.

Camped at the black sand beach, with crystal like iceberg surrounding, felt like diamonds glittering in the beach.