Month: October 2017

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Today was a day just to wander around Reykjavik.  We walked to the water and learned about the history of Reykjavik as a port and observed a lot of swans in a lake.

 After days of eating at gas stations and convenience stores, we had lunch at a true Icelandic restaurant called Sæta Svinid Gastropub.  The food here was amazing!!  You could get whale, horse, and puffin (all things people eat in Iceland) and although we like to try foods of different lands, the horse and whale sounded a little scary so we tried some smoked puffin.  Since it was smoked, it just kind of tasted like jerky.  Besides that, Carl had a lamb sandwich (his first real meal in several days!) and I had seafood soup which were both super tasty.

 To cap off the day we walked through an outdoor art gallery (lots of weird sculptures) and checked out the Hallgrimskirkja ( a church).

Our final day in Iceland also marked our final day in Europe so it was time to head to the airport and fly back to Boston.

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Touring Iceland typically involves driving everywhere and getting in and out of the car to see cool stuff.  Probably not ideal if you’re nauseous, but Carl was a warrior and agreed to get in the car to attempt our plans for the day.

Full day 1 in Iceland was driving the Golden Circle route with the first stop being Thingvellir National Park to do some hiking/meandering.  (This was just the start of discovering that everywhere you look in Iceland is beautiful!).  Dad and Chris took a path to a waterfall and Carl and I took a path to the Silfra Fissure.  The fissure is the only place you can snorkel or scuba dive between two continental plates which sounds cool, but if you don’t do a dive the fissure looks like nothing from above and isn’t anything special.

Strokkur Geyser was the next stop which was absolutely awesome!!  You get to walk right up to it and it erupts every 8 to 10 minutes.  I find water fascinating so even just watching the pool of water move and change in between eruptions was neat.

The rest of the day included Gullfoss Waterfall and Kerid Crater Lake.  We hoped to see Northern Lights on our way back to Reykjavik, but no luck.