We continue our circumnavigation of this wonderful island country of Iceland. So far we have been sailing more or less north from Reykjavik ...

Our first first day in Iceland on Fram, and we have lots of things to do! Overnight we sailed in slightly loppy water to Grundarfjorder on t...

From the title of this blog you may guess where the intrepid Fram is on this planet. The fire comes from volcanic activity and the ice from...

“When anxious, uneasy and bad thoughts come, I go to the sea, and the sea drowns them out with its great wide sounds, cleanses me with its ...

Better known as the Faroe Islands, this archipelago consisting of 18 major islands was our last stop on our way to Iceland. Located about...

Most of you know that Hurtigruten changed owner very recently. First thing they realized is the enormous potential of Expedition - they j...

Small, almost attached to Scotland, but nevertheless a world in its own right; the Orkney Islands are a flat-lying, extensive archipelago o...