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Iceland - 1987

 

Iceland - 1987

Statue of Leifur Eiríksson
Statue of Leifur Eiríksson

Iceland - 2003

 

Iceland - 2003

 

Our second visit, this time with David.

Statue of Leifur Eiríksson 0079 2Standing at the end of Skólavörðustígur street and in front of Hallgrímskirkja church is one of the best-known landmarks in Reykjavik, the statue of the explorer, Leifur Eiríksson. Enhanced by Wendy and David.

 

As evidenced by Wendy with David at the base of the statue, on a somewhat grey day.

 

On our first visit, as we wanted to travel through the central region, it was compulsory to be guided and supported. That government regulation resulted in us booking a package holiday. We travelled in a group, with two 4x4 coaches.

The central region is unpopulated and remote, hence the requirement for a minimum of two vechiles in a convoy.

This trip was basically a circumnavigation, without any need to cross the centre. I also think that over time there was a relaxation of the regulations.

We were one family, in an ordinary, hired, family car, travelling at our own pace, ish.

Both trips were arranged through Arctic Experience, re-branded as Discover the World, from 2002, a specialist travel agent, founded in 1984, and based in Banstead. Which is conveniently close to our home. Iceland was a prime location for Arctic Experience for our first trip in 1987. Their range had widened, not surprisingly, by 2003, but they were still in the elite for Iceland holidays.

Lapland

 

Lapland

USSR

 

USSR - Union of Soviet Socialist Republics

 

A guided package holiday. Very guided.

Ireland

 

Ireland

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Spending some time this May repairing links and photos damaged in the move to the new website host. Particularly the articles transferred form the previous travelogue to this, the current Travel website. 

Change of host Sept 2023

 

Change of host Sept 2023

 

In the begining of August 2023 I transfered my ivanhurst.me.uk sites, including this one from 123-reg to IONOS. It was meant to be a simple task. However, that was to to be the case. The reason for the move was primarily the hugh increase in price that 123-reg was applying regarding email boxes. Previously, the upto 500 of the boxes were included in the various hosting packages I had. Now they were going to charge for each mailbox based on size, and as far as I could make out, this was going to cost me nearly £2,000. This was not acceptable, and I did not get satisfactory answers from support. So I turned off all the auto renews and stated to move sites and domains accross to IONOS.

Travel data problems

 

Travel data problems

This is where it starts to get a little technical.

The site is built on a content management system, CMS, using Joomla. Joomla is moving forward and version 3.10.?? is being discontinued. Future developments are for version 4.??

Similarly, PHP 7 is being replaced with PHP 8.

Part of the migration is relatively simple, I have already changed to a new template which works on the new platforms.

However, some of the helper applications, which work within Joomla are not yet ready.

Fabrik is one of those applications, if fact a significant 'Joomla Custom Website Application Builder'.

Refresh 2021

 

Site refresh Easter 2021

I decided to give the site a bit of a refresh over Easter 2021 and install a new template and some additional functions. One of the things I didn't like about the old site was the delay in text appearing which probably meant some people left before the content appeared. This has been disabled now.