Iceland

Ahhh beautiful Iceland! Well the first thing you have to do when you get to Iceland is check your calculator at the door, because if you start doing all the conversions to find out how much everything is actually costing...it will kill you.

So what have Nori and I done...

Day 1
Well after we got off the plane and got our car rented we decided to head to the famous Blue Lagoon. Even from the air we could see it...it is this hazy light blue color. As can be expected the smell of sulphur was pretty strong from the geothermal springs, but the water was gorgeous, especially since it was around plus 2 outsides, so the whole lake was enveloped in steam, you could hardly see 15m in front of you. Nori and I tried the silfra mud, caking it on our face...for that smooth sensous feel!

After that we headed into town and found our hostel...after a couple wrong turns. Then we headed into downtown Reykavik to check everything out. Although, the Friday night, nightlife in Reykavik is supposed to be pretty wild, we checked in early as we were getting up early for a long day of driving.

Day 2
We got up at 7am and started driving south. It was dark as we expected so we drove some, 8am, 9am...still pitch black....10am....yep still dark. Wow, I thought i was used to the mimimal daylight hours from Canada, but not getting light until 1030 or 11am...that is rough. Everything seems so dead.

Anyways, we headed down to south passing waterfall after waterfall...and taking pictures of waterfall after waterfall. Then we came to Skogar, the first big attraction. It was a massive waterfall, witha town of...50 people around it. Everything was dead, we never saw a single soul. So we hiked up and around the waterfall. Legend says there is a treasure of gold behind the waterfall, but I couldn´t convinve Nori to go for a swim and get it.

Then we kept on driving. We wanted to head inland to the tongue of one of the glaciers but the road was óffroad´which is prohibited by our rental car. Luckily...I didn´t read the rental contract...so we went anyways. At the glacier, I warned Nori how dangerous it can be to walk on the glacier because you could fall through a hole. So what does Logan do, walks on the ice...in front of the glacier. Underneath which, the water is melting and flowing. CRACK, the icebreaks!Lckily, with my catlike reflexes, I managed to scramble back to safety. Other then the wet pant leg and shoe, I was alright.

Then we did some more off road driving, this time to the coast where there we birds but the thousands and then some. Plus some magnificent rocky cliffs and black sand beaches.

Next we drove on to Vik. Not a lot there, but we found this really cool store that sold souviners. The cool part though, was that the actually had a mini factory in the back and made nearly all of the stuff. Especially all of the Icelandic Wool wear.

Finally we backtracked and headed inland to Arnes. When we got to the hostel we found that we were the only two staying there. Surprise surprise. We kept a lookout for the Northern lights, but they never showed.

Well 2 minutes left on the expensive internet. Guess our final two days will have to wait until i get home!

Cheers everybody! Miss you all in Denmark already!

Logan