Wednesday 17 May 2017

Back to Dijleland!

 

We are back! Welcome back to our regular adventures in the world of Dijleland! The last adventure in Dijleland was last summer so we are glad to be back with a normal adventure.

Our reason for such a delay in the adventures is that my dad, Tonio, has injured his leg and couldn't walk normally for a while. We attempted to do an adventure but we never made it far because Tonio's leg started hurting so we went back home. Finally, today, we walked an adventure and finished it without Tonio's leg hurting.

We started walking at 107 and went to 108, 109 and back. It rounded up to 3.2 km and it felt much longer than it was.The unusual thing about this adventure was that we had an old map and apparently there was an update in passages. From 108 to 109 we had to pass 131 and 130.



The good thing about this adventure was that when we were going back, it was like we'd never been there before since we were viewing from the opposite side. There wasn't much of a view since we were mostly in a forest but there were some weird statues and lined up trees in a path. Overall a very nice forest.



In the end we went in the car and drove home but that's not it! We then stopped to take an ice cream. Tonio had banana flavour and I had blueberry. The blueberry was strange since it looked just like strawberry ice cream but tasted like blueberry.

At last, we went home and continued our lives. Did you have fun? If you did, join us on our next adventure!



GianlucaDeGringu



Note by dad, Tonio:

It's been so long since our last adventure in Dijleland that we were a bit confused about which was the next number to do. We thought it was 107, but it could have been 108. So we took a picture next to both, also since no. 107 has probably the ugliest background of them all and 108 is much nicer. Whatever the case, we hope to resume from here, and hope also that our map is not obsolete yet. We noticed new numbers, which are not on our map, being indicated on the wooden posts - the red circles...

Wednesday 3 May 2017

Back to Iceland - day 2

Today was our first full day in Iceland.

The plan for today was to start off taking a little look around Reykjavik, the capital city of Iceland, then we went to the walking tour of Reykjavik. After taking a snack we went all the way to our cottage, where all the unpacking took place. We thought of going somewhere else but we were too tired after the two hour jet lag. Doesn't seem like much but we were shattered.

First we went to take a look around Reykjavik just before the walking tour. We didn't see much but we came across this beautiful glass building shopping mall tourist attraction mix-up. It was very nice but I personally didn't see the tourist attraction part but Tonio did and he took some nice pictures of the building.




Next up, walking tour. Overall very nice. The guide was both funny and informative at the same time. He told us about the many pools which is quite ironic since Iceland is very cold. He also told us about the history of museums, schools and other buildings. One of my favorite facts the guide told us is that there is almost no security anywhere. On purpose! Wanna know what the police are doing? follow them on Facebook, Twitter and other social media and look at their selfies and photos. Last fact, the Prime minister has most of the power in Iceland. The president, however, has almost no power at all. In fact, on the news, an interviewer asked the president of Iceland if he had one power, what would it be? The president said to ban pineapple on pizza! Can you believe it!

Then, we took a snack at a hot dog stand. I couldn't resist taking an ice cream because I was needing one even though it was freezing cold outside.


After that, we went all the way to our cottage, which was a long ride and at the end, we were finding it hard to get to the cottage because it was in the middle of really rough and bumpy roads. But finally, we made it to the cottage. It was quite cosy with small rooms and a nice type of wood. We decided to stay in the cottage since we were too tired to go anywhere else. But we still had a fantastic day. After 2 or 3 hours we were too tired to stay up and went to sleep...


Did you have fun because we sure did. If you did have fun, join us on our next adventure in Back To Iceland.

GianlucaDeGringu