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Hello guys! What is going on? My name is Lily Monroe and you're listening to

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Escort Confessions. This is the podcast about my trip to Iceland part 2. So after

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I said hi to the ponies and horses, I went to the National Lake Glacier Park

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where there's a biggest parking lot and you park there and there's like a bunch

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of glaciers in the water. So that's one of the places I definitely recommend

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going to because it's so pretty. Like I probably was there for an hour just

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looking at water, looking at glaciers because before this I've never seen a

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glacier in my life. So it was just really cool experience just seeing blocks of

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ice in the coldest water. And you can't swim in the water because not only

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you're not allowed to but you would only survive a few minutes. I'd like to put

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that to the test because I I swam in Alaska in summer and the water was

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below 40 degrees. So you know I like to test my limits and stuff. So yeah. So

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glacier park put it on your list for the things to visit in Iceland. The drive

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there from from that park to I went to Husavik because that's where they filmed

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this Netflix movie with Rachel McAdams and Will Ferrell. It's called Eurovision

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Song Contest. It's really funny and Eurovision is a national competition in

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Europe. It's a singing competition. I'm sure you guys Americans have heard of

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it because it's really popular. They don't have that in America because it's

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only European thing and Iceland is part of Europe. So and it's so funny. It's no

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no no it's not even funny. It's so sad because Iceland is the only country in

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the northern hemisphere that did not win Eurovision. And it sucks. I'm gonna be

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rooting for them every year until they win. So anyways from the glacier park

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where I drove to Husavik. I know it's such a beautiful drive. It's like there's

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mountains on one side, there's ocean on the other. It's just I can't describe it

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like you just have to have to be there to experience it. And it's you're all

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alone in the wild. You don't know if you're gonna have enough gas to go to

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the next spot. So basically I filled up every chance I could get and it's always

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good to fill up when you have half a tank of gas because it's it's better

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apparently. I can't remember why but it's better. Something to do with gasoline and

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make sure and stuff like that. So I did stop in the town of Hafen. It's on the

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seaside. Really cute town, really small. Everybody knows each other. Oh yeah if

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you are traveling I always recommend going grocery shopping because it's you

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get to save a lot of money. Because if you go out to restaurants it's like it's

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I mean restaurants like they're not overpriced per se but you are paying for

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cooks to prep your meal for the waiters for the hostess and you know stuff like

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that. So always go grocery shopping and yeah you never know what you can find in

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grocery stores when you're traveling. So stayed in town of Hafen and ta-ta-ta-ta

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what else? What else? What else? And on the next day I got to Husavik and visited

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a few film locations, visited the the only your vision museum in the world and

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the guy there was super nice he was super helpful also took a bunch of

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selfies. Oh interesting fact they have like a rainbow road in the town of they

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have ran Rainbow Road in the town of Akureyri and Rihavik. So I really liked

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the town of Akureyri more than I liked Husavik because Husavik is so small but

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it's they have really nice marina but Akureyri they have really nice downtown

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and it's bigger and it's just oh indescribable how pretty it is and I

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felt like I was really in Europe because of all the Icelandic language around me

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and the names of the stores and just just different vibe and it's I don't

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know how to describe it but I highly recommend visiting town of Akureyri. Oh

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and on the way there I got into a snowstorm so on both sides of me there

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was white snow I'm on like the mountains and I'm like I'm in danger I don't know if I'm

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gonna make it to the next town but I did you know obviously yeah town of Akureyri

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definitely visited they from there to Rihavik it was about five hours but on

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the way to Rihavik I stopped at in this town called Hvanneri they have the

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Rockin Troll restaurant and hotel and it's so cute because so trolls and elves

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are part of Icelandic culture and if you ask a native about elves and trolls

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they'll be like oh I don't really believe in them but I wouldn't mess mess

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with them either so I'm like oh okay cool cool yeah so I highly recommend

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going to Rockin Troll Hotel it's it's I mean it's not like hotel hotel but like

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you can stay in like those little cabins and there's like normal cabins and they

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have like troll statues and troll history and they sell books about trolls

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and the hosts are absolutely wonderful and so I stayed there and then the next

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day I drove to Rihavik and visited downtown oh and they have this so their

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traditional food is lamp soup meat soup and fermented shark and this ice cream

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and and hot dog I said the hot dog and ice cream kind of reminded me of chocolate

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chip cookies if it was made into ice cream because you can just eat it I

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don't I don't know how to explain it but and with fermented shark you have to

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take a shot right after which I did not do because I don't drink so basically

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like I and and it comes in like little cubes and the only place to get it is

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called Cafe Loki in Rihavik so basically I I was at the restaurant with a friend

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and me new friend that I made so I was at the restaurant and I took little cubes

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and started chewing on them for five seconds and then the taste of nail

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polish remover was in my mouth and I'm like what is going on what is this is

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this normal it's supposed to be that way weird interesting amazing experience so

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after that I'm like I'm not eating shark again it's I mean it tasted like fish

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like toony smell I mean taste and then after that nail polish remover is the

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only thing that I could think of so very interesting oh and the yogurt and the

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cakes uh I I have sweet tooth so all of their desserts were delicacy to me and

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the food there is so good it tastes like food it does not taste like plastic like

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in America if you know what I mean yeah we could be friends we can definitely be

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friends yeah cuz like I feel like a lot of American food it tastes like plastic

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because it's made out of plastic sometimes so yeah but I signed it for

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this really good really delicious really tasty they do not put a lot of sauces

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they just have like a little bit of salt and olive oil in their salads but they

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don't really do the whole condiments situation so so there's that um yeah and

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in the Havik there's this biggest church what is it called okay it's called

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Hallgrimskirke yeah something like that you will see if you get through Havik you

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will see it in the distance it's really tall um it's not the prettiest church

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I've seen I mean from the outside it looks pretty cool but inside it's all

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gray a lot of Icelandic people I don't know they like the color of gray they're

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building things are gray and like I don't know if it was snowing and I was

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walking downtown I would feel like I'm in Soviet Union or something I mean it's

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still Europe so yeah yeah but it was definitely interesting trip I would

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definitely recommend going to Havik checking out the Rainbow Road checking

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out downtown a lot of souvenir shops like one on every corner pretty much and

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gosh there's so many things out there to check out and for me a week was not

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enough I felt like I could have gone for nine days or ten days instead but there's

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a lot of whale watching down there and you can go into ice cave I believe and

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if you get a chance definitely try the fermented shark and other local national

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traditional cuisines so yeah that was my trip and once again travel while you can

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come hang out with me email me with any questions that you guys might have about

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either my job you know as a spicy accountant or about travel but yeah thank

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you so much for tuning in today and listening to me to my voice my name is

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Lily Monroe and I will talk to you guys next time