Check out what the Wall Street Journal has to say about Hampton Jitney’s new and improved service to the Hamptons: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703960004575427512005392850.html?KEYWORDS=Hampton+Jitney
August 18, 2010
Hampton Jitney Featured in Ralph Lauren Store Window
The Ralph Lauren store in East Hampton, NY, decorated their front window as a Hampton Jitney bus stop, complete with the Hampton Jitney sign, vintage suitcases, and mannequins in stylish summerwear. Hampton Jitney is an institution synonymous with travel to and from the Hamptons, and blends well with Ralph Lauren’s casually classy style.
July 7, 2010
Awe-inspiring highlands
Recently all highland roads in Iceland were open again for traffic. The Reykjavik Excursions – Kynnisferdir fleet of highland busses was ready after undergoing thorough maintenance and improvement all winter long. This small fleet consists of 13 busses, 4 of whom are 4×4 vehicles and the others are bus bodies built on truck chassis.
Highland roads are usually narrow gravel roads or tracks and most rivers are unbridged. Travelling in the highlands of Iceland is an amazing adventure and an accomplishment in itself – many people like to hike, ride bicycles or rent 4×4 SUV´s to get there. We are proud of our bus fleet and specially trained drivers. It is awesome to be on a bus, crossing glacial rivers and driving tracks that in many cases can´t pass as a road, even though it´s officially a highland road! Driving such tracks you need a lot of skills and good sense – it´s not always best to cross a stream where it is shallowest, so to speak. The highland summer is very short and the vegetation in the highlands is very vulnerable and slow growing. Driving off tracks is prohibited and if someone does so, in spite of the ban, it can take several decades to heal the damage caused. The environmental factor plays a big role when we plan our highland tours as does instructing both our drivers and the passengers to treat Nature with care and respect.
June 1, 2010
Ramkvillabuss/People Travel Group Represents GPN in Sweden
Ramkvillabuss is an old bus company, founded 1922, which now is a part of People Travel Group that operates all over Sweden. We can offers luxury coaches in all sizes. Also see: www.ramkvillabuss.se
Enjoy our on-board features: Extra leg room, DVD, TV, Fridges, Toilets, Air Conditioning, seat belts and more.
May 3, 2010
All Quiet on the Northern Front
The world media has for the last weeks been reporting on volcanic eruptions in Iceland and the consequences it has had on air traffic around Europe. Among the accounts there are several written by people that seemingly have little or no idea what´s going on. Pictures of people shovelling ash from roof tops with their faces covered by masks have been published all round, making it look like it is part of everyday life in Iceland. This is far from the truth. Everyday life in Iceland is as normal as can be, considering the circumstances. The airplanes are flying again and the airports are open. Spring is tiptoeing nearby and migrating birds like the arctic tern and the golden plover have already come over for their summer habitat. Daffodils are blooming in parks and gardens and multicoloured crocuses flourish, a little late for all standards, but admired and loved by onlookers. The blue colour of the mountains surrounding the capital is slowly taking over the white crust of winter´s snow. The volcano is however still spouting ash and fumes, but not to the extent that it did before. Experts say that it could stop tomorrow, after a month or in a year.
As of May 1, 2010 Kynnisferðir/Reykjavik Excursions will be operated separately – the bus and coach part of the company will from now on be known as Kynnisferðir and the travel agency part will be run under the Reykjavik Excursions logo. The management of the company will be the same as before the separation.
In Iceland we look forward to spring and summer, hoping the aftermaths of the eruption will be minimal. We also look forward to GPN´s meeting in Reykjavík in the early fall and we´ll do our best to make the stay a memorable one.
Business as Usual as Spring Comes to Iceland
April 13, 2010
White as Snow, Red as Blood and Black as Ebony
This phrase from Snow White comes to mind when looking at the volcanic eruption on Fimmvorduhals in Iceland. The circumstances are sub-real; bitterly cold northern winds biting, glaciers visible all around and yet this wonderful display of exotic colours. The fumes from the crater and the steam from the boiling glacier blow graciously into the wind and disappear. With April ahead we flow along and keep track with what is going on. Will it last a long time or will it stop shortly? No one can tell but everyone who takes part in the adventure hopes it will go on forever.
March 26, 2010
March 23, 2010
New Tours Show Spectacular Volcanic Activity in Iceland
Dramatic Volcanic Eruptions in Iceland
After observing continuous earthquakes for months in the vicinity of glaciers Eyjafjallajokull and Myrdalsjokull in southern Iceland, it came as no surprise when a volcanic eruption began on March 21st in Fimmvorduhals, a pass between the two glaciers. The mountain pass is a popular hiking site during the summer months. Iceland is a geologically young land and its location astride the Mid Atlantic Ridge and on the Iceland Hotspot means that it is highly geologically active and has many volcanoes. Eruptions occur on average every five years and also we have several eruptions beneath ice caps, which can generate glacial bursts, most recently in 1996. The Mid-Atlantic Ridge, where the Eurasian and North American Plates are moving apart, is partly responsible for this intense volcanic activity, along with Iceland being a hot spot, which means volcanism due to a rising mantle plume. The fissure 0,5 km long on the northern part of the pass. Due to a strong gale in the vicinity of the eruption it has not been easy to view it, but Reykjavik Excursions has set up evening tours for those who want to experience a once-in-a-lifetime sight.
March 15, 2010
Hansabuss offered full transportation solutions in two world-class events
Firstly, in the middle of January, 17.01 – 24.01.2010, Hansabuss did a cooperation with Estonian Skating Union by offering a full transportation for the European Figure Skating Championships Tallinn 2010. There were a lot of work to do, but all went well and smoothly. We were really satisfied with our clients and they were satisfied with us. It was our pleasure to be a partner for such a prestige event.
Secondly, Hansabuss also served the International Rail Forum “Strategic Partnership 1520: The Baltic Sea Region” which took place in Tallinn in February 2010. Our client was Russian Railways, so it required us a very professional international cooperation. And we did and offered it!
Hansabuss really learnt a lot from these two internationally important events. Now we are even more professional, better and internationally recognized bus transportation company!
December 11, 2009
GPN Iceland: Sour-faced descendants of the vikings?
When tourists come to Iceland for the first time they sometimes complain about our bus drivers´ lack of smiling. It therefore comes as a pleasant surprise when they learn that these - most of the time – solemn and grave looking individuals are usually soft spoken and highly service minded. Being serious is for them being normal, not a statement of being grumpy or sour. An old Icelandic idiom states that a fool laughs at own joke and in Iceland nobody wants to be considered a fool. Living on the outskirts of Europe is a serious matter and quite different from the frivolous rest of the world. Being descendants of the Vikings also counts in being serious, the said probably didn´t smile a lot when they raided Lindisfarne in the eighth century. Winters in Iceland are long and dark, in Mid-December the daylight lasts less than 4 hours. Thanks to the Gulf Stream Icelandic winters are not as cold as one might think. All in all the Icelanders are a serious people, bus drivers no exception. The grave appearance is only skin deep though – once you start communicating, the barriers are easily broken and the real Icelander appears: Helpful, caring, warm-hearted and proud. Proud of being an Icelander and proud to work for a company that cares. Visit our web site www.re.is
Sour-faced descendants of the vikings?
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