This is a blog of the Jazzbeaux Iceland cruise and hiking trip from August 19 to 30, 2019.  We flew to Reykjavík on Delta, spent two nights in Reykjavík, boarded Ponant Le Champlain for a 7-day circumnavigation of Iceland with daily hiking excursions by Backroads, then spent one more day in Reykjavík before flying home.

During the trip, Jazzbelle kept detailed notes and I [Jazzbeau] took lots of pictures.  After returning home, I revised the notes to remove names [to protect the guilty, as they say…] and put it in my voice to avoid confusion.  Jazzbelle became ‘DW’ in internet parlance [‘Dear Wife’].

In planning for this trip I used the brand-new Rick Steves Iceland [2019] book, as well as Trip Advisor [www.tripadvisor.com] and, of course, Cruise Critic [www.cruisecritic.com].

What follows is a day-by-day account of the trip with lots of pictures.  Enjoy!