Day 5

Coming up with meals to cook for dinner in a camper van with a 1 burner hot plate, a medium frying pan and a stock pot is proving to be a challenge! Tonight’s consisted of ramen noodles, edamame, a box of spinach and some dehydrated haddock locals seem to rave about. Kevin’s description of this fish was “it’s like chewing on a cardboard box that doesn’t get soft; it just gets wet.” I have to agree. But add to it: a salty cardboard box. Thankfully we packed some dehydrated meals from Mountain Meal Prep, a company based out of Whistler to mix in between the “creative” meals we come up with.

This morning we left Höfn and headed to the Viking Village Prop set 15 minutes away. This was built by Universal Studios and then used by Netflix for The Witcher - Blood Origin. Nearby were the stone ruins of a Norwegian settlement (Horn), some of the first inhabitants of Iceland.

In the same area was Stokksnes peninsula which was a vital location of the British army during World War Two. Vestrahorn is a breathtaking mountain located in this peninsula which reflects off the black sand beach in the lagoon in front of it making for stunning photos.

We hopped back on highway 1 headed for Egilsstaðir, driving through fishing villages in the East Fjords along the way. We drove through some with just over 100 people and up to around 700! We also drove through 2 mountains with 1 tunnel being almost 7kms long! The weather changed drastically as we drove along with sun turning to snow while in the mountains. Tonight we are staying at Camp Egilsstaðir which is in the largest settlement in the Eastern Region with about 2500 residents & they have a pretty good brewery (Askur).

All the campsites we have stayed at so far have been well equipped. Given we got to the campground at an earlier time than the last few days, we decided to use the laundry facilities at the campground to get us through the remainder of the trip!En savoir plus