Inverness - Scotland

First thing taxi driver told us: Inver means "the Mouth of", therefore, Inverness is the Mouth of river Ness. Here is where river Ness meets the ocean. No question, Scotland is very very green. It rains a lot here but fortunately, for the 3 days stay, no rain at all and pilots get some needed rest.

Cute Hotel Bunchrew.

One of the castles.

Lake Ness (in Scotish, Loch Ness). Looking for the Water Monster.

Water Monster coming to us....

Town of Inverness. By the way, no Pringle of Scotland here. Where is it?

River Ness.

River Ness. Water very clear. Great water here. Makes the best Ice Tea and Whisky, of course.

Country road.

In the Hotel yard.

ICELAND - May 13-14

Cheers! From Iceland. Pre-dinner drink.

Iceland in rain.

A quick stay over at Iceland. In order to avoid the Vocano ash, we shortened the stay at Iceland to just one night. For the past few days, a lot of flying and no real break. Pilots are tired. Cute town though.

Look~ How happy Jeffrey is when he found the fuel he needed

Look ~ How happy Jeffrey is when he found the fuel he needed at Kuujjuaq.

The Beautiful Greenland

Arctic/Greenland

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Corss Atalantic

Tomorrow the team will start to cross Atalantic. Due to the Vocano ash, there are four routes being planned and today, at the pilots meeting, I guess we will need to make a final decision. The most likely route for now is still going through Iceland but go North. Because the ash seems to move to south and covered the Azores (An island off Spain) where was the original alternate.
Now, here is the planned route, (don't even try to pronouce them)

Quebec city to Kuuijuaq (Northern Canada), then Kangerlussuaq (Greenland) Akureyri (Iceland), Fiesland (Norway). (Above is for three days of flying).

Inside the Cabin

Two seats are taken off to place emergency raft, spare parts, and a lot of paper work. Notice the bucket, the emergency toilet. Hope that nobody needs to use it.