This morning we left Reykajvik, and our comfy Guest House, to pack up our tiny car and explore the country of Iceland. We started off heading north to the Snaefellsnes Peninsula – a quick 2 hour drive had us completely out of the urban scene, as we were surrounded by lambs, waterfalls, moss covered mountains, ocean, and Icelandic horses.
We made our way to Stykkisholmur (our home for the night) got everything set in with our hostel, and set out to explore the rest of the Peninsula. It was unbelievable – everything from lava fields to lush green hills of horses, to glaciers and massive rainbows , to a shark farm for Iceland's famous snack of ferminted shark meat, to what seemed like thousands of waterwalls were discovered today. We had fun playing on a black sand beach – shockingly enough Matt got some of himself into the North Atlantic (his fingertip), though the water did chance him up on a rock a few times.
We drove over 400km in our trusty little tin can today, which lead to the only bad part of the trip thus far - $8 a gallon for gas. Turns out cars don’t run on hydrothermal energy. What gives? We ended the day back home in Stykkisholmur, just as the sun was setting. It turned into a beautiful evening and we were able to take some time to sit on this lovely hill just above the dock in our tiny fishing village. The photo above was taken from our hill at sunset.
Tomorrow we head to Akureyri, the send largest city in Iceland with 16k, were we are staying at a Guest House on a farm for two nights. This town sits on the edge of a fjord and I’m looking forward to a little bit time to relax.
(Note: Matt wants me to write “looking fjord-ward” but I just can’t do it.)
Gooa nott…
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