Sushi at Reykjavik

Following the previous post on my trip to Iceland last October, I feel I need to share what was also and definitely one of the best gastronomical experiences I had. 

I didn't go for the puffin or the mink whale which I heard are great but having sushi at Reykjavik is a must. If ever at Reykjavik definitely head to Sjavargrillid. It is not cheap but every Icelandic Kroner is worth it. The fish is so fresh it just melts and blends in your mouth...

Iceland - In The Land Of Fire And Ice

Iceland had been on my radar for a long time since I started looking for a way of chasing the elusive and unimaginable beautiful Northern Lights.

The first mental image you get when you think of Iceland is of an inhabitable icy dry place. The true Land of Fire and Ice, filled with active volcanoes and immense glaciers. So, every time you think of it you start scratching your head wondering why on Earth would you think of laying your feet on the island. 

So, last year, during one of those usual hot days in my home country, Portugal, I decided that I had waited for too long and I would finally go to Iceland in October; I would once again try to have a glimpse at the beauty of the Aurora Borealis and its dance on the North. One year before I had watched it over Norway´s skies, but it was not enough... A one week roadtrip plan was designed and I started bracing for the expected tough conditions of the country.  

I couldn´t be more wrong about Iceland and the extraordinary surprises and beauty it reserved for us. It is the Earth as it was created; one planet condensed in an island lost in the North sea, with the size of Spain and with the population of a middle sized city. Nothing short of an uncanny experience.

If you want to know more about the trip, you can find it out here.

https://carlosferrophotography.com/travel#/iceland/

Review: The Age of Adaline (2015)

The Age of Adaline is an unusual story about the life of a 29 year old woman who stops ageing after suffering a car accident back in the 20's. After the accident and ultimately her husband´s death she starts living a secret hidden life changing identity and place every ten years.

Blake Lively creates a compelling portrait of a woman who never belongs anywhere up until a day when she can no longer escape her own life. Ellen Burstyn, playing Adaline´s daughter in her 80´s is flawless and in one particular restaurant scene you struggle to figure out which one is the daughter and the mother and how strangely these roles can be reversed in life. Completely miscast in this movie is Harrison Ford who clearly shouldn´t have accepted a role in which he is demanded to look surprised in every scene he appears on.

The movie is well crafted right up until the last twenty minutes when an "unexpected" event brings part of Adaline´s past into her present life. At this stage the movie and the screenplay turns into a Nicholas Sparks novel and almost gets ruined in the end. 

The Age of Adaline is not a bad movie but it would take it a completely different direction to turn it into a great one.

My IMDB rating: 7/10.

Summer is Here...

... and I am so going to have a bite on these ones right now...

Let´s Start From the Beginning...

I love to travel.

I lust on food.

I enjoy a really good night at the movies.

I think the Earth stops moving whenever a good tune or song is playing.

My passion is photography.

I think there are too many good things on this World to pass by and it is a shame not to share it.

As time goes by I intend to post about all of this and all the experiences I believe that may be good enough to share. 

I will post about present and current experiences but from time to time, I will also post about places I´ve been and things I have liked.

If you like it free feel to write me. If you feel like asking anything about everything do it so.
It is by sharing that each of us can learn more and become richer.

In the end, I don´t really know where I´m going. And I hope I never will...
But I keep searching.
Join my rides and I will join yours.

"Wind in my hair, I feel part of everywhere,

underneath my being is a road that disappeared"

Eddie Vedder  | Guaranteed