The Iceland Ring Road

The alarm went off at 5.15am to what was a beautiful sunny day in Iceland. We showered, popped down to our breakfast buffet, then around 6.30am we set off to Ace car rental ready & set to have an argument about the chip on the windscreen.

Jackie had already frozen her credit card & we were delighted to see that the early morning dew was camouflaging the chip on the windscreen. We entered the car rental office & was served by a trainee, which was a good start, but the obnoxious git who had tried to flog us the extra insurance offered to check the damage with him. Damn. They return minutes later and announced that there was no damage & we were free to leave. Yet again we had survived a rental car damage inspection!!

We were driven to the airport for our flight home, which all went smoothly until I discovered I had unruly kids both in front & behind me. Even they couldn’t dampen what was an excellent trip timed to perfection, if I don’t mind saying so myself!!

In the last 10 days we had driven a total of 2,638 kilometres through virtually every weather condition. Iceland has birds in abundance, but strangely very few mammals, other than Icelandic horses & the odd small herd of reindeer. It was rare to see a cat or dog in Iceland & on our travels we didn’t see a single rabbit or other similar creature.

Iceland is definitely worth a visit.

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