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Iceland, land of fire and ice, well for us it was more winter storm adventure! But let\u2019s start from the beginning, this fun slash adventure storm part will return little lately in this story.<\/p>\n

For my dad and me was Iceland always top on the list of countries to visit. What a luck for us, as we have new flight route from Prague, capital city of Czech Republic directly to Iceland. Wait! It\u2019s for November, can we make it on Iceland in winter? Don\u2019t think, we don\u2019t have cold winters in Czech Republic, but yeah, it\u2019s still warmer here in Czech. \ud83d\ude42 But of course we can make it, it\u2019s going to be great winter Iceland trip. And after all it was really great trip. Stop, no more spoilers, about how great it was. So we are going to Iceland in winter and when we were telling about our upcoming winter adventure to our friends and family, most of them just said something like \u201cenjoy, but don\u2019t freeze there\u201d. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

When we were planning the trip, among other things, we wanted independence. So camper car<\/a> was the option number one. Not going to speak about experience with Rent.is, as everything went smooth. So we have our small RV car for two booked. Finally it\u2019s late November and we are on Iceland! We are on the way, so we should go straight forward to our trip and continue with the story.<\/p>\n

First impression on Iceland? Just look on the picture below, this is really land of fire and ice!<\/p>\n

\"The<\/a><\/p>\n

1 <\/strong>–\u00a0First impression<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

Plan for first day was very simple. Discover beauties of Sn\u00e6fellsj\u00f6kull national park<\/a>. Something like 250 km in front of us. Just a calm day full of adventures with just a few kilometers to drive. And how is Sn\u00e6fellsj\u00f6kull? Beautiful mountains, amazing cliffs, black beaches<\/a>, small fisherman\u2019s villages and much more, well just everything what you can see on Iceland on one place. You can spend here whole week and still have something new to discover. But that applies for whole Iceland.<\/p>\n

\"Sn\u00e6fellsj\u00f6kull<\/a><\/p>\n

2<\/strong> – Sn\u00e6fellsj\u00f6kull National Park<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

In the late afternoon strong wind came. Well honestly it was windy like hell \ud83d\ude42 , but we thought it\u2019s just a wind, but the truth is that blizzard was already coming. And how we ended up our first day? We found shelter in beautiful small town Stykkish\u00f3lmur with glass of traditional Iceland beer.<\/p>\n

\"Winter<\/a><\/p>\n

3<\/strong> – Wind is coming<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

Second day is here and the plan is pretty simple. Akureyri, here we go!!! Something like 350km and we can be in the second largest Iceland town. Still windy morning but we saw some Sun coming from East. And there was some Sun, until we reached Sta\u00f0ur on Route 1<\/a>. Somewhere around there Sun just left us and it was no more windy. Because regular winter storm arrived. Just look on the picture of the road to Akureyri.<\/p>\n

\"Driving<\/a><\/p>\n

4<\/strong> – On the way to Akureyri<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

We almost didn\u2019t see the road and snow was coming from everywhere. We were almost in the middle of the nowhere. So what to do now? We had only one chance, check the road status regularly and make it to Akureyri. And we did it, well we arrived lately then we expected, but who cares in that weather conditions. It wasn\u2019t easy day, but only easy day was yesterday. After we arrived into Akureyri it was like in a movie. Small beautiful town under the tons of snow. And I\u2019m not kidding now. We just saw the snow and almost nothing else. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

After all, even with blizzard all around us and big driving adventure we enjoyed our day. So we went sleep in our winter shelter car. Let see what new day bring to us, as we had great plans how to continue with our trip on eastern part of Iceland.<\/p>\n

And what the new day brought? Winter snow calamity!!! Yes, it was snowing whole night and in the morning there was snow everywhere. We almost couldn\u2019t see our car under the snow. I heard somewhere that winter is coming. Lies, it\u2019s already here on Iceland. \ud83d\ude42 And what is more important, all the roads from Akureyri were closed. It was Friday and our flight back home was scheduled on Sunday morning. So we are good, at least we have some time to explore Akureyri. We had really lovely day there, like in fairy tale, but in the evening, the town was still cut off from the rest of the world. No road open and no chance to open them today. Well, we still had whole Saturday to get back to Reykjavik and airport. But yeah we checked the air tickets and phone number to Rent.is, you know just to be sure. Maybe we\u2019ll have to have to extend our stay on Iceland. After all, why not, we can\u2019t influence weather and everything else can wait. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

\"Winter<\/a><\/p>\n

5<\/strong> – Snow calamity?<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

\"Snow<\/a>\u00a0\"Wintertime<\/a><\/p>\n

6<\/strong> – Calamity for sure!<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

There is winter service on road 1!!! We are saved. \ud83d\ude42 Around 9 AM was road clean and open. We were on way back to Reykjavik. We used the same road, but it was totally different journey this time. No winter storm, so we saw all the beauty around. Snowy mountains, amazing view on fjords around Bl\u00f6ndu\u00f3s and Hvammstangi or just a nature of north Iceland<\/a>. There are so many nice places to stop, take picture or just chill around.<\/p>\n

\"Driving<\/a><\/p>\n

7<\/strong> – On the way back<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

And after all, even the sun returned to Iceland. Even if you are going to ride only road 1, you\u2019ll see all the beauties of Iceland.<\/p>\n

\"Winter<\/a><\/p>\n

8<\/strong> – Sun is coming back<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

\"Camping<\/a><\/p>\n

9<\/strong> – There is beauty everywhere<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

Our last stop was Reykjavik, of course we couldn\u2019t miss Iceland’s capital city. Actually it\u2019s really nice city, we spent our very last moments with great food and beer in this beautiful city. And then only last night and flight home, back to Czech Republic.<\/p>\n

\"Winter<\/a><\/p>\n

10<\/strong> – Winter shelter<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

\"Frozen<\/a><\/p>\n

11<\/strong> – Waterfall, how typical for Iceland<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

And the end just few words about RV car in Iceland<\/a>, as it is best option for sure. You have all the freedom. You can go and stay wherever you want. Even in the winter you don\u2019t have to worry to camp, look at us, we made even in the winter storm. \ud83d\ude42 But the truth is, that after all it was more than car. It was our safe harbor, our winter shelter, where we can always hide before the winter and wind. Now I know one thing for sure. This wasn\u2019t our last trip on Iceland!<\/p>\n

\"Around<\/a><\/p>\n

12<\/strong> – Sunset<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

And one more note at the end. Don\u2019t forget to bookmark road.is website. Road condition are almost in real time? I never saw something like that, great job and thumbs up for the Icelandic road and coastal administration. And why am I talking about it? Because Iceland has real wild nature and weather, so stay safe, check the weather and road conditions and enjoy amazing Iceland with Rent.is!<\/p>\n

Read more:<\/strong><\/span> Anniversary surprise in Iceland<\/a><\/p>\n

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