We went to a soccer match-KR vs SOMEONE. We don't know who the other team was because all the announcements were in Icelandic.KR won 2-0. KR is the soccer club I have been training with.

Fishing at Hvemmvatn

Bjarni caught a big rainbow trout. He gave it to us to eat. Before we could eat it we had to clean an scale it. The guts were everywhere.

We ate the fish.

I fished by casting and spooning. Casting is throwing the line out. Spooning is pulling it back in quickly to get the fish attracted to the lure.

I got a few bites and Mum almost got a big fish but it got away.

Mum and I went fishing with Bjarni and Haldora at Hvemmvatn in the fjordur (fjord) Hvalfjordur. It was my fishing debut.

Culture Night 2 - Evening Fireworks

There were fireworks at the end of Culture Night (in Icelandic Menningarnott).

I enjoyed the fireworks.

Culture Night 1 1/2 - Concerts

Our last concert was at the city hall. There was a blues - rock - jazz band.

This was my favourite band.

We went to lots of concerts. We went to:

• a jazz concert at the Tourist Information Centre;
• a concert of popular English songs at the Free Church - I knew some of them;
• a concert of Icelandic folk songs in the National Gallery; and
• back to the Free Church for another set of songs but this time in Icelandic.
  

Culture Night 1 - Morning

There was also a 10, 21, 3 and 1 1/2 km run for the kids.

This is the Reykjavik Marathon. It is a 42 km run. There were hundreds of people running in it.

Soccer Me!!!

This is me playing soccer in a club called KR (Club Reykjavik).

There are some people that speak English in the team as well as Icelandic.

I scored a goal on the first day. I shot from 10 metres out and scored just over the goalie's head. It almost hit the crossbar!!!

Soccer International

We went to see an international soccer game. It was my first international soccer game.

It was Island versus Spann (Iceland and Spain). The result was 0-0.

I wore my KSI (Iceland) shirt.

This photo was taken at 8:00 in the evening and it is still light. We were facing west and the sun was in our eyes!!!

The Swimming Pool

The swimming pool is at Vestabaer. It is geothermal meaning heated by the earth.

Process of getting ready for a swim

1. Get your locker key and find the locker.
2. Undress and put clothes in the locker.
3. Bring swimmers with you to a shower.
4. Have a shower.
5. Get dressed into swimmers.
6. Enjoy your swim.

When you come back in, you repeat steps 1 - 5 backwards.

The water is 29 to 30 degrees Celsius and the hot pots: the hottest one is 44 degrees and the coolest is 38 - 40 degrees. I have been five times and enjoy it.

Fumaroles

Steam was pouring out of this fumarole at Hverarond near Krafla.

Another thing that comes out of fumaroles is the smell of sulphur (rotten egg gas).

I thought my friends would say "Get me out'a here".

Dimmuborgir

I guided Mum and Dad through a maze of houses: elf houses; troll's dens; fairy bowers and dwarfs' caves (cave dwarfs).

There were also statues and amazing sculptures made out of lava.

The Santa House

There were elves houses outside and Santa's clothes were getting wet in the rain.

We visited where Santa lived. The man who sold us the Christmas decorations we think was Santa with his beard shaved off!

Skogafoss

There is also a Folk and Transportation Museum in Skogar. The Transportation Museum has lots of old cars in it.

Skogafoss is a waterfall in Iceland. 'Skogar' is the town and 'foss' means waterfall.

Birthday Cake

My birthday cake is in the shape of an 8. It is chocolate and strawberry iced.

Krafla Active Volcano

An active volcano - wow!!!!

It last erupted in 1984. Now scientists think that the magma chamber is filling up again, ready to erupt in the next few years.

I am standing on the crater. It was boiling and I had my jeans on!

Lake Myvatn

Lake Myvatn is in North-East Iceland. We saw it on my birthday. It is only 3 - 4 metres deep.

We walked around some pseudocraters.

Seljalandsfoss

Seljalandsfoss is a waterfall. 'Foss' means waterfall in Icelandic. You could walk behind the waterfall but we didn't do that because people were coming back soaked.

Blue Lagoon

This is the Blue Lagoon, near Reykjavik. It is a geothermal pool. Geothermal means 'hot earth'.

The pool was 35 - 39 degrees Celsius. We soaked in the pool and my Mum and Dad put mud on their faces.

Sunset at Reykjavik

Sunset occurs late, even in August. It's 10.30!!!

Frozen river of ice

Solheimajokull is a glacier that we saw on our trip to Vik and back. We walked on the glacial morain.

Soltar

This is the sun traveller (in Icelandic, soltar) in Reykjavik.

Saxholl

Saxholl is a scoria crater. Scoria means basalt with lots of gas through the rock. These rocks come from Saxholl.

Saxholl is a volcano in the west of Iceland. I climbed it right to the very top.

Irish Well

This is an Irish well dug in the 9th century. It is near an American army base and communication tower. The Irish well is held up by whale bones and it has water in it.

Soccer

This is me playing soccer. There is a playground behind my apartment. That is where I am in this picture.

Our Apartment

This is our apartment in Haskoli Islands, which means University of Iceland.

Gulfoss

Gulfoss means golden waterfall. It is supposed to make rainbows on really sunny days but the day we were there it was dull.

Geysir

Geysir has lots of geysers - they are named after the place in Iceland. The temperature of the water was 100 degrees Celsius. At Geysir, we went to the multimedia show about volcanoes.

Last day in Prague - July 22

The man that I bought my soccer shirts from had a cheaper price every time.

I bought four shirts from him but he didn't have any Australian ones.

Prague - July 21

This is the cafe where we had our last Czech dinner.

The restaurant was called The Two Cats.

On the evening of our last night in Prague, we saw the castle from the Charles Bridge.

Prague - July 20

At the conference dinner, there was an Oompha Band, of tuba and accordion.

This is a thylacine (Tasmanian tiger). It has been extinct for almost 100 years.

This specimen was in the National Museum (Narodni Muzeum) in Prague.

Will and Sue - Karlsteijn Castle - July 19

There were heaps of sunflower fields on the way to Karlsteijn Castle.

They are my favourite kind of flower.

Mum and I visited Karlsteijn Castle, 35 km from Prague.

It has lots of interesting rooms including Charles IV's bedchamber.

I enjoyed Karlsteijn Castle because I saw lots of interesting paintings.

Prague Castle - July 18

St Vitus has the tomb of Good King Wenceslas.

(Good King Wenceslas was actually a prince. He was murdered by his brother in 935.)

This is St Vitus Cathedral in Prague Castle.

Jewish Quarter, Prague - July 18

Rabbi Loew was an important leader of the Jewish people in Prague. This is his tomb in the old Jewish cemetery.

During the Second World War, there were 77 297 Jewish people taken away from Prague and killed.



Franz Kafka was a famous Czech writer. I like this sculpture because he is sitting on top of a ghost.