So beautiful!!! I think I must visit Iceland! Love the fairytale garden. The homeowner is so kind to open his garden to the public. The houses are beautiful. I think the best experience is taking a leisurely stroll in a residential area, taking in the houses and visiting local shops (yes, including supermarkets!). You don’t really need excursions which likely go mainly to ‘touristy’ places- at least that’s my assumption, not having gone on a cruise before! It’s a great idea to spend more time in Iceland and drive around. I definitely look forward to your videos on that 😂. It does look like Iceland is an expensive place to live in but wow the views alone are so worth it! Btw, I vote the Mickey Mouse outfit as the best outfit for your 11 days on the cruise!🤣

When i went to Reykjavik i was walking in the main st minding my own business and ending up walking past Bjork the singer going shopping. Beautiful country!!!

One of my favorite things to do in a new country is to go to supermarkets! I love to see all the different products that aren’t available in the US, so thank you Ben for taking us into an Icelandic market! Interesting about the lady with the Service dog, but not surprised because Icelandic regulations bar all dog imports (and horses and sheep).

Ahhhh...my favorite world traveler taking us to an Islandic market. That was fun and interesting. That town was just beautiful. Whales and daylight almost 24hours! I would stay awake as long as I could. Thanks Ben for another awesome adventure!

I love seeing supermarkets and taking the local buses/trains when i travel. That’s how you see what the local life looks like

So, finally you saw Moby Dick ! " And the great oceans roll as the rolled 5,000 years ago !"

Hell yeah man! Thanks for talking about my skatepark and giftshop! Got a person in today that told me she had to check us out because she saw us in this video 🙏🏽

I enjoy just listening to your viewpoint on things. Interesting to learn you’re a teacher.

oh my goodness, this cruise checks a lot of the bucket list items. Cheering you on as you add more personal bests like - furthest most northern point on the planet to your list.

Very nice. The air looks so clean. I bet it smells wonderful there. That cheesecake looked scrumptious.

What a beautiful place! Makes me homesick for Alaska where we lived in the wilderness for many years there. All the daylight of summer was my favorite part of living there. Thanks for bringing all those memories to mind.

Enjoyed your video as usual. There is another solo cruiser whose videos I watch and she is on the same cruise, but going in the opposite direction. Your ports intersected this weekend in your videos. Interesting to see your two different perspectives of the same port.

No McDonalds, but I learned today that they have a Costco! As I have mentioned before, I’ve almost missed my cruise ship when I venture out to check out the Costco in ports outside the U.S.

Enjoyed watching this made me feel I was there! My career was teaching high school Science so I especially like seeing nature in all its glory. Thanks for posting these for us all.

Loved every minute of it! Thanks for taking us along!

Loved loved loved all of your travels today. What a beautiful place, I love cold weather too. Enjoy the rest of your cruise.

Thank you great video

This was my favorite port in Iceland last year on the Prima. I did the same as you and walked everywhere. I heard that the botanical garden was the furthest north in the world. I was there in July and it was full of flowers. Thanks again for your video.

I’m booked on this cruise for 2025, thanks for the tips! Yes I heard about the impending cruise ship ban also, so that’s why I booked the trip. They just don’t want the huge cruise ships anymore. So in the future you’d have to fly to Norway and use a smaller, non polluting vessel to tour the fjords from what I understand

I loved my trip to Iceland on Prima in May, another wonderful video today. I’m an English teacher too, living in Hawaii so I have Asian students. See you on the next video.

Really enjoying your podcast Ben. Going on the Prima next year to Iceland,Your videos are really going to help

Great video! Loved the grocery store content

I saw the midnight sun in Alaska several years ago. At first it seemed weird, then it became the new normal. When I got home and it was dark at night it freaked me out a little. 🤣🤣🤣

Very nice visit to Iceland. I like how uncrowded it appears to be. It looks beautiful. Everyone that has visited Iceland, always tells me how expensive it is there. I use to live in Alaska. That's another place where its daylight at midnight. I never got use to that.

So much fun to see your videos! 😊 Always visiting Supermarkets when being abroad to see prices and what stock they have. Looking forward to hear what you payed for the trip with Prima. 🎉

Good afternoon, Dan ! I never visited this place before but I used to think the streets are all icy with polar bear roaming nearby ! Actually, it looks like California ! Haha ! The snow-cover mountains look holy and at 12:37 it should not be all bright ! Man, it is enchanting ! Enjoy !

Another great video, Ben! Thank you for warning us that cruise ships will soon not be able to go to Geiranger anymore. I've already started looking for a cruise that stops there. I've already got a cruise to Central America early next year, so it will be a challenge to fit it in before they stop offering that port. Sadly, I'm not wealthy. Seeing the waterfall would have been great, but the grocery store was a nice Bonus. 😂 That was my attempt at humor for today, but seriously, I do enjoy checking out local stores at ports.

Thanks again. I prefer to travel to cooler places. I am not a fan of really hot weather. Ben have you been to Alaska? 💙

Ben Video Bingo card: Free space = speaks Chinese. Squares: "Someone lives here and sees this view everyday."; "Push on a door."; "it's so cold out!"; outfit-of-the-day shot; shows graffiti; mentions Americans; says "soccer". What other Squares would Ben have? All in good fun of course. :)

When you go up there again definitely go to Myvatn. How terrible about the service dog. I think the cruise line should have told her about the quarantine rules. It makes perfect sense iceland would not risk having a dog enter the country.

I'm thinking about booking this last minute if someone cancels for the 7/14 one (I doubt it). They had an opening yesterday that I should have booked but I chickened out! I'm a solo traveler as well and always go to the solo meets. What was the age group of people in the solo meets and were there a lot? I've seen such a mix at all the solo meets with NCL. I did Pride of America though in January and it was maybe 30s-60s. I still talk to 2 people I met during them and 2 other people I went last summer on the Gem!

Ben I like the way you show these places in such an unvarnished way. How much did you pay for the cruise?

You’re an English teacher and you said “should have WENT to the Caribbean”? Is this correct in British English? “Should have GONE” is correct in American English 😊

Ben, where (website) do you get your last minute cruise prices? We live in south Florida and can jump on cruises anytime if the price is right. Thanks!

Why do you always think everyone died with regret?