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SEEDS 33. Bláfjöll - The Blue Mountains
29.07.2009
Take 17 big trucks of grass
47 meat meal buckets and
12 piles of horse manure
Mix it with 13 high motivated volunteers
add some forks and rages
enough buckets and wheelbarrows
Leave this mix together for 2 weeks
Interleaving with some trips to Skaftafell,...
SEEDS 21. The old mine of Helgustaðir
22.07.2009
Eskifjorður is a town in the East Fjords and located on the opposite side of Iceland´s capital, Reykjavik. It is known for its fishing industry and since 2005 for the massive and controversial aluminium smelter built just behind the city.
The aluminium smelter employs a significant...
SEEDS 05. Þórshöfn & Langannes Peninsula - Happy Days Festivities!
20.07.2009
The Þórshöfn workcamp is a long and well established corporation of SEEDS with this small community close to the “end of the world” at the Langanes peninsula in Iceland’s north-east.
Þórshöfn has been involved in reforestation tasks...
SEEDS 26. Nature reserve of Þórsmörk * - The forest of Þór (3)
15.07.2009
6 SEEDS volunteers arrived to Þórsmörk natural reserve which is one of the most beautiful places in Iceland.
Þórsmörk surrounded by natural boundaries like mountains, ice caps and Glacier Rivers & lagoons.
Þórsmörk...
SEEDS 04. Island of Viðey festival - Viðeyjarhátið
07.07.2009
We live in Viðey
hearing the birds sing and fly
an island in Reykjavík's sea
with nobody nearby, just 9 volunteers and me.
Some of us flew from Spain, Korea and Japan
others from Germany, Ireland, France and Taiwan
for others the stay is not so short,
they...
SEEDS 24. Vatnajökull National Park & Kirkjubæjarklaustur
04.07.2009
Two groups of our volunteers have just returned from their two weeks projects nearby Vatnajökull glacier, leaving a successfully completed project and lots of good times behind us, and bringing many good memories and new friendships back home.
Each group worked in different places...
SEEDS 03. The highlands of Iceland - The famous Kjölur road!
29.06.2009
This workcamp took 7 volunteers from 4 different countries – Austria, France, Germany and Italy – to the remote place of Kerlingarfjöll. Kerlingarfjöll is a collection of mountain huts about 20 minutes from the famous Kjölur road, which allows visitors in good motorized...
Scared of sheep heads? - SEEDS 20. The North of Iceland - Nature & fun!
20.06.2009
Fnjóskadalur, after one week we are still impressed by the view. If I look to the right I can see mountains and only far, far in the distance can I see another house. In front there is a little church and the house of the host and mountains with snow and on the left (after a few mountains)...
SEEDS 19. Hólmavík hiking paths
20.06.2009
Hólmavík, a town of about 300 people is one of the largest settlements in the West Fjords. This region, with an area as large as Wales, but populated by only 7000 people, is attracted by a rising number of tourists who enjoy its beauty and special, quiet atmosphere.
Our...
SEEDS 02. Western Fjords - Seamans Festival
15.06.2009
I can honestly say that the time I have spent in Tálknafjörður and Bíldudalur in the last 2 weeks, has been one of the most interesting and satisfying things I have ever done (as I have spent 2 years living abroad, travelled extensively and have done a number of other volunteer...