Selfoss to Snaefellsnes

Terrific breakfast under our belt then off to Thingvellir National Park. This is on fault line through Iceland where the Eurasian and North American tectonic plates meet. The plates are pulling slowly apart, forming a valley. This is also the location where the initial Icelandic parliament, the Althingi, met in 930AD. It continued to meet there each autumn for centuries. It was very wild and windy. We walked to the nearby waterfall, church and Prime Ministers old summer residence.
We then drove west stopping at a few viewpoints looking at the glacier created ‘U’ shaped valleys. Stopped at one spot to look at some sheep pens created out of stone walls, no longer functional.
Had lunch at a farm (soup and bread-delicious) and a bit of background about farming in Iceland from the owner of the farm. It is a tough life for the farmers and the sheep (which spend 6 months of the year running free way up in the hills and the other 6 months in the shed (winter).
Then it was on to our hotel in Stikkisholmur with a couple of stop offs to look at glacial valleys.
After dropping our gear at the hotel the weather was so good we walked through the town to a light house for yet more stunning scenery.
Dinner at the hotel with the mob then bed.
This was a really long day. Both of us were really cooked at the end.Read more