Monday 9 July 2012

Around the ring road in Iceland

We made it around the ring road in Iceland and are now back in Reykjavik.  The last couple of days we had very limited internet so no posts but I will attempt to catch up a bit now.

I am sitting up on the 8th floor of our hotel overlooking the harbour in Reykjavik having breakfast, it is a beautiful sunny day with some white fluffy clouds in the sky.  We have a few days here and head home on Wednesday :(    Last night we went to a play at the fabulous theatre/concert hall across the street.  It was a comedy but ended with a beautiful montage of the sights of Iceland.  What a beautiful dramatic country.

we understand there is a bit of controversy about this place - an expensive building built while the country is in financial crisis (this shot was taken at 8:30 at night)

The title of the show and it really is a 60 minute show

the actor's view of Iceland

 
The actor went through 15 lessons/rules on being an Icelander -
this being the final one - which loosely means - 'do the right thing'

this is our certificate - so it is official now - we are icelandic...

The last two days took us off the ring road and around the Snaefellsness Peninsula on a gravel road for part of the way.  By the way, we had a white car, though by the time we turned it in, it was more brown than white and quite speckled with bug guts - even though we did give it a wash half way through the trip.

Here are some scenery shots from around the Peninsula:




Mt. Snaefellsness and Snaefellsjokull glacier

lava field - we would come upon these and some would stretch as far as the eye could see

Hallnar

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