Guides and notes from the road
Travel guides to Iceland and the North, and dated notes on what changed on the roads, the ferries and the prices.
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1 Nov 2026 · 3 min readBaldur in dry dock: the Westfjords loop until late NovemberFerjuleiðir has Baldur in dry dock in Hafnarfjörður until late November 2026. Day 1 of the Westfjords ledger becomes 389 km by road; Flatey is a passenger boat.
1 Nov 2026 · 5 min readBlue Lagoon, Sky Lagoon, Hvammsvík: the detour on each ledgerNone of the three showed an adult price in its page text on 1 November 2026. The detours from Keflavík and Reykjavík are computed for the 7-, 10- and 5-day ledgers.
1 Nov 2026 · 5 min readCamping in Iceland: 24 dated prices, the rule, and a week for twoAdult per night from 1,300 ISK (Grundarfjörður) to 3,500 (Hellishólar), read on each site's page on 1 November 2026. Six Ring Road nights for two: about 29,500 ISK.
1 Nov 2026 · 5 min readEvery toll and site fee on Iceland's roads in one dated tableVaðlaheiði 2,216 ISK, Hornafjörður 1,500, Hvalfjörður free, car parks 1,000–1,500, Þingvellir 1,000, Kerið 700 a head, Stokksnes 1,100 or 1,200. Read on 1 November 2026.
1 Nov 2026 · 5 min readF-roads 2021–2025: share of years open by 15 June, 1 July and 15 JulyVegagerðin's table as one number per road: Kjölur open by 15 June in 5 of 5 years, Landmannalaugar from Sigalda in 4 of 5, Sprengisandur in 0 of 5 and 1 of 5 by 1 July.
1 Nov 2026 · 5 min readFlåm and "Norway in a nutshell" done yourself, with a carNorway's Best returned 429 four times on 1 November 2026, so no Flåmsbana or boat fare is printed. What Vy and Skyss publish, and the self-drive loop: 334.6 km, 5 h 50.
1 Nov 2026 · 4 min readGeiranger without the Hellesylt ferryFjord1 stopped the Geiranger–Hellesylt car ferry on 4 September 2026; it is suspended until further notice. The fjords ledger never used it; the road costs an hour.
1 Nov 2026 · 4 min readGreenland from Iceland in 2027: what is on sale and what is only filedAir Greenland's map shows Keflavík–Nuuk on Tuesdays to 20 December 2026 and nothing for 2027; Icelandair's 2027 flights exist only as filings. What the ledger assumes.
1 Nov 2026 · 5 min readIceland's four ferries: fares, crossings and the ledger each touchesHerjólfur, Baldur, Sæfari and Sævar on 1 November 2026: 2,700 ISK to Vestmannaeyjar, 6,300 across Breiðafjörður, two fare pages that are widgets, and where each fits.
1 Nov 2026 · 4 min readJökulsárlón: the minimum stop, the fee and the boat prices, dated1,110 ISK to park, 7,100 ISK for the amphibian boat, 2 h 10 min from Vík and 44 min from Höfn (Vegagerðin), and a minimum stop built from the park's own walk times.
1 Nov 2026 · 5 min readThe grocery basket index: 25 items priced on kronan.is todayTwenty-five own-label staples on Krónan's price pages, 1 November 2026: 16,596 ISK, index 100. Nettó prints no browsable prices, Bónus none; the sleep towns shop by shop.
1 Nov 2026 · 4 min readThe longest stretch without fuel on each Iceland ledgerFrom the ledger legs and the one station list readable on 1 November 2026 (olis.is; n1.is and orkan.is were not): 365 km between confirmed pumps on the 7-day loop.
1 Nov 2026 · 7 min readVolcano experiences in Iceland: six ways in, and the eruption sitesVolcano Express, Lava Show, Perlan, FlyOver, Raufarhólshellir and Þríhnúkagígur: prices, hours, Harpa-to-Harpa minutes, and Reykjanes access on 1 November 2026.
1 Nov 2026 · 4 min readWestfjords loop: paved against gravel, leg by legVegagerðin's distance tool splits each road into paved and gravel. Over the six-day ledger: 99 km of gravel in 1,012, mostly the Látrabjarg road, and a 204 km fuel gap.
1 Nov 2026 · 4 min readWhale-sighting rates by port: what the operators publishNorth Sailing logged whales on 95.76% of 1,108 Húsavík sailings in 2025; Elding reports 91% from Reykjavík in 2024. Nobody publishes a monthly table.
1 Nov 2026 · 4 min readWhat the new Hornafjörður toll does to the Ring Road weekFrom 1 September 2026 the 19 km Hornafjörður section is tolled by camera at 1,500 ISK a trip. For the seven-day loop that is one certain crossing and one probable one.
1 Nov 2026 · 5 min readWhere to sleep on the Ring Road: towns with fuel and a supermarketSeventeen stops on Route 1 spaced by Vegagerðin's distances and checked against the fuel and supermarket chains' lists on 1 November 2026. Longest store gap: 260 km.
1 Nov 2026 · 4 min readWhy every figure here has a dateNumbers decay: a toll appears, a ferry goes into dock, a pump price differs by 34 ISK between stations on one afternoon. The method: ledgers, verification dates, bands.