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Re: Iceland

Post by ELZE » Sat Nov 07, 2015 4:38 pm

Here we go!

<a href="http://s1061.photobucket.com/user/LZ59/ ... 1.jpg.html" target="_blank"><img src="http://i1061.photobucket.com/albums/t46 ... 144131.jpg" border="0" alt="where did the road go ?? photo 20121205_144131.jpg"/></a>
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Re: Iceland

Post by ELZE » Sat Nov 07, 2015 5:54 pm

ELZE wrote:Here we go!

<a href="http://s1061.photobucket.com/user/LZ59/ ... 1.jpg.html" target="_blank"><img src="http://i1061.photobucket.com/albums/t46 ... 144131.jpg" border="0" alt="where did the road go ?? photo 20121205_144131.jpg"/></a>

Give up! been on two hours fighting with photobucket, resizing pictures then loading them and nothing :twisted: :twisted:

Anyone know an easier way to load pictures onto this site??
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Re: Iceland

Post by g8dhe » Sat Nov 07, 2015 6:12 pm

I think you have chosen the wrong link (those are for web pages) you need the one for a BBS it will be for IMG

But they are still too large more than 786 high!! I can't edit them however....
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Re: Iceland

Post by ELZE » Sat Nov 07, 2015 6:44 pm

g8dhe wrote:I think you have chosen the wrong link (those are for web pages) you need the one for a BBS it will be for IMG

But they are still too large more than 786 high!! I can't edit them however....
I have altered the size twice already? Any smaller and you may need a magnifier to see them!

One more try before I go for a stiff drink!
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Re: Iceland

Post by ELZE » Sat Nov 07, 2015 6:54 pm

AT LAST ICELAND

DONT WALK HERE!

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LOCAL TRANSPORT

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LATE MORNING VOLCANO
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WHERE'S THE ROAD GONE?
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FROZEN RIVER/GLACIER

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GEEZER

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THE MONEY SHOT
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ME HANGING AROUND WAITING FOR BETTER WEATHER SO WE CAN ERECT THE BLADES
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THATS IT FOLKS
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Re: Iceland

Post by Gasy » Sat Nov 07, 2015 7:10 pm

Cool


And well done with the pics
As said just copy the img: ..............
To the right of pic in photo bucket I've never had to resize
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Re: Iceland

Post by ELZE » Sat Nov 07, 2015 7:44 pm

Gasy wrote:Cool


And well done with the pics
As said just copy the img: ..............
To the right of pic in photo bucket I've never had to resize
Thanks

IMG is the last one on the bottom, this is what I used. I have been posting stuff for years with no problem until this forum changed the sizes? Then the troubles started but hay ho!

what I think the problem was...too many photo's because I got a message something about page size??? when I left a few out it was OK


on another note every time I log on now I get the minimised version. I click the button for the full version but when logging on again it reverts back to the same question?

Is this anything to do with the hacking!

Sorry but with being away a lot I miss loads of stuff that happens on here :(
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Re: Iceland

Post by Glenda » Sun Nov 08, 2015 8:49 am

Great shots of Iceland Elze. Envious of anyone who can out to somewhere like that and call it work!Those huge wheeled 4wds dwarfed our little Bongo. Thanks for the tips but we finished our 4 weeks there a couple of weeks ago. Have a 2wd V6 and we made many excursions from the ring road, such as the Western Fjords, where we would be on unsealed roads for up to a hundred miles at a time and it coped admirably. We could not have dealt with heaps of snow but were prepared with enough supplies to wait out any blocked passes or roads until the snow ploughs had been through. As it turned out we only had a few days with a pretty, light dusting. I could not Bongo there safely in December when you there with a Bongo and no support plus the days were shortening by an hour every week. So in a month we went from 15 to 11 hours daylight. So mid October latest for a travel trip. Many of the interior gravel roads were closed even to 4wd by the time we left.
Had the same trouble with Photobucket as you but may email 6 photos to Doone and beg her to put them on. It was after all the Bongos 100,000 mile anniversary and it coped so well with Iceland.

My advice would be for anyone without the time to take their Bongo jump on an Easyjet flight, rent a car and get round the whole Island.

Now for another go on photobucket.........
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Re: Iceland

Post by ELZE » Sun Nov 08, 2015 9:52 am

Glad you made it and had a nice experience with the Bongo. Gives me confidence now for the winter over here with mine :lol:

My work exploits have taken me further than thatover the years, from the frozen wastes of Iceland & Norway to sunnier climbs of Libya and the Sahara @ over 55 deg heat 8) then onto the cold wet North sea just off Stavager near Norway, Portugal, Switzerland and Saudi Arabia.

Although I have all the pics but could not be bothered to go through all that again :roll: well maybe, sometime ?

In Iceland I was in an area known as Burfell. I agree if anyone had the time and a few bob to spare it is a must on anyone's bucket list! I thought is was an amazing experience. 300,000 population and 250,000 live in Reykjavik? that shows how much of a wilderness it is once your out of the City.

Ah, one more thing I remember, Sitting in the plane on the tarmac whilst they de-iced the plane before take off with power steamers :shock: :shock: All that ice...worrying!
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Re: Iceland

Post by Glenda » Sun Nov 08, 2015 11:34 am

We took our Bongo down to the Sahara when first got it 8 years back. Moroccan part. Have done a lot of Middle east and North Africa as worked in saudi for 2 years. Didn't have a Bongo though. Never have the chance to see Libya or Algeria now.

We wild camped every night except 2 nights Reykjavik. Very easy. The scariest night was actually near Burfell. We were underneath Hekla volcano. Historically it erupts within 5 years of the big volcano that erupted 5 years and 6 months ago! and stopped the flights in western europe for 2 weeks. I think I awoke every 10 minutes thinking I could hear it starting.
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Re: Iceland

Post by ELZE » Sun Nov 08, 2015 1:14 pm

That was Hekla in the photo and the turbines were in that valley so I know what you mean. As for Libya I got out in a rush as everyone else did when the trouble kicked off then went back a year later only to get out again after the American Ambassador killings. Just in time me thinks. everyone including kids 13 running around with Ak's & rocket launchers...scary
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