Bucket list type of thing.

[diggerjones]

Well I'm here. £45 airport to hotel in capital on bus return. £9.50 a pint in capital. Paid £3.50 pint out of town happy hr . Pizza and chips £7 today. So not bad. Food shopping in supermarkets not bad.
One amazing place

 

[Quattromike]

Well I'm here. £45 airport to hotel in capital on bus return. £9.50 a pint in capital. Paid £3.50 pint out of town happy hr . Pizza and chips £7 today. So not bad. Food shopping in supermarkets not bad.
One amazing place View attachment 6822

Awesome, bad looks cold

 

[diggerjones]

Not cold

 

[diggerjones]

Sun burnt day before glacier hike

 

[diggerjones]

 

[V8Druid]

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is this a normal thaw Dylan or more recession of ice coverage ?

 

[diggerjones]

Normal i think. The strangest thing it doesn't go dark

 

[diggerjones]

Whale watching tomorrow

 

[V8Druid]

Normal i think. The strangest thing it doesn't go dark

bet that's weird sunbathing at midnight

 

[Monkeybusiness]

Whale watching tomorrow

We did that and saw bugger all unfortunately - not massively surprising as I bet the sensible whales give Iceland a pretty wide berth!..,

 

[V8Druid]

We did that and saw bugger all unfortunately - not massively surprising as I bet the sensible whales give Iceland a pretty wide berth!..,

 

[diggerjones]

We saw a whale and i caught a fish

 

[Monkeybusiness]

I didn’t realise you could catch cod by their eye!!!

 

[diggerjones]

You weren't supposed to see that. Ha

 

[diggerjones]

Thought i would resurrect this thread.
Just booked tickets to kiev to go on the Chernobyl tour.

 

[Bri963]

Thought i would resurrect this thread.
Just booked tickets to kiev to go on the Chernobyl tour.

You won’t be seeing at night there, you’ll be glowing in the dark.

 

[diggerjones]

You won’t be seeing at night there, you’ll be glowing in the dark.

 

[TiltyShaun]

You won’t need your Readybrek to glow! I watched the documentary about the disaster and the portrayal of the immense braviour (stupidity?) that some went too. There has also been some recent programmes about how nature has recovered in the area, although I am not sure I would be rushing there yet!,

 

[Gunners]

Thought i would resurrect this thread.
Just booked tickets to kiev to go on the Chernobyl tour.

Went to do that in 2012 but never made it to Chernobyl as the weather over there was -40! So spent a few days in Kiev which is an interesting place to say the least. The underground is straight out of the Soviet Union and has some really beautiful stations, it also has the deepest station at 105m (had to just look that up) The Ukrainian State Museum of the Great Patriotic War is a must see if you like military stuff and you cant miss it with the f**k off motherland statue on top of it! Walking round it is like being in Goldeneye - its all that kind of architecture.
They got a bit funny about taking photos though for some reason so don't be alarmed if you get followed from a distance around some of these places. Its very much still a government controlled society - or certainly felt like that to me. And that was before Russia invaded parts of it!

 

[diggerjones]

Went to do that in 2012 but never made it to Chernobyl as the weather over there was -40! So spent a few days in Kiev which is an interesting place to say the least. The underground is straight out of the Soviet Union and has some really beautiful stations, it also has the deepest station at 105m (had to just look that up) The Ukrainian State Museum of the Great Patriotic War is a must see if you like military stuff and you cant miss it with the f**k off motherland statue on top of it! Walking round it is like being in Goldeneye - its all that kind of architecture.
They got a bit funny about taking photos though for some reason so don't be alarmed if you get followed from a distance around some of these places. Its very much still a government controlled society - or certainly felt like that to me. And that was before Russia invaded parts of it!

Thanks. Some good info there. May do the 2 day trip tp Chernobyl