I did it....

I did take the first step towards a longer and very needed time in Iceland... gathered all my courage. Thought once, thought twice, thought even thrice.... I waited a few days and finaly I took this one step or actualy push on the button.
I am now registered in Iceland as workseeker. I know I know... there soooomewhere at the bottom of the list is me far behind the many Icelandic people and people with better education, the asylumseekers and other urgent cases. But I am on that list. And who knows very very very maybe I will get an offer. Who can say? At least I did take a step I didn't really dare to take here in Holland. And... I feel so content so fine about it. No regrets, just a feeling like being in love, a feeling like my misery here is facing a sudden death. I just keep hope that there usualy are job positions available within the horse world. Or agriculture in particular. But probably they work just as excellent as here in Holland. Wait forever....

And with one step taken, the second one has gone easy too. Asking for a price quote to have my furballs with me. They are the reason why it isn't going smoothly because Iceland is so complicated with taking animals. Thanks to them I have to stay longer period of time, but they also make it more difficult as I need a place to stay where they are allowed. At least Iceland is not a country to have your windows open too often ;-) I just hope their travel costs will not be too huge. Their veterinairy costs and quarantaine already drains me for a fair 2000 euro's. Getting them from Egypt wasnt even half that price. I really hope a solution will be arriving, really if it wasn't for them I would have been there already. But we will never ever part. They rule in my dream, if they can't go, we all won't and continue our misery life here (or in another country likely, because staying here is signing my death wish).

So now with my plans to go move to Iceland, there is all the other side effects. It won't be a cheap thing to do, how the hell am I going to afford it all? I cannot take all my stuff with me, so a next step is to see how shipping part of my belongings can be arranged. To more common destinations it is rather cheap as you share container. I probably have to rent a whole unit, which costs a fortune. Or rent a carrier and move by boat via Denmark (which for me is a more likely thing to do). Somewhere it is exciting but man really I am surprised how much things you have to think off. I wish it could be a matter of step on a plane and go. But it is not. It feels great though. But still it is something I really have to stay grounded for, because it won't come easy, and maybe not even at all. Even in all my excitement I won't forget it is still a dream I fiercely believe in. Not easy with being a single woman too...

Next step is that I am about to book Iceland for April. This time 5 nights since there is no evening flight and it will 'steal' a whole day. I'd be back home sunday morning already... Sad but true, I wish Icelandair had more or at least later returnflights. But the advantage is that the first day you still can go out exploring with arriving in the afternoon. I fly now for 'just' one hour, thanks to the lack of summertime, it is 2 hours earlier. I am curious, now I go riding a whole day too. Hopefully avoiding touristic nightmares. First wanted to go to Laxness again, but I am afraid to end up again in the mass tourism groups nevertheless and ride the same trail again. Now I am supposed to visit some volcano's. I have to see other horse ride offers though. There is more than Laxness and Ishestar (which are both very good by the way, no offends to that! I just don't like to be in mass tourism or feel like a tourist anyway). I am always ready to try things one more time, but my last experience with tourism activities must have cured me forever by now. Isn't that also the reason why I want to leave freaking overcrowded Netherlands? The highest populated country in the world? No I am not mistaken, it is true... even pigs here have more space per square mile...

This time I go enjoy Iceland without any scheduled activities. Except horseback riding. I guess that leaves not much choice.