Iceland Day 1 & 2

📌 We arrived nice and early in Iceland and picked up the little I10 that would drive us around a ring of an island. We were keen to see some dramatic landscapes and the east side of the island had many on offer. We had a quick shop at the supermarket as spending money on food would be unnecessarily expensive and likely unfeasible given the remote accommodations.

📌 We started with a few waterfalls, a beginning of many. It was reasonable with crowds and the weather was holding, they were large and beautiful against the greens and browns of the gloomy landscape. One of these falls you could walk all the way behind and get a massive spray. We stopped for lunch at a great little roadside cafe making some delicious breads and soups. Chloe went for the hearty Icelandic transitional meat soup. The last stop of the day was the black beach that's notoriously dangerous. It was nothing overly special and a bit of a waste of a high car park fee. We ended the day at a cute farm guesthouse with a couple of collies and a distant view of glaciers.

📌 Day 2 started with a delicious coffee at a cool US school bus cafe (converted from an old air base) before heading off to see some more glaciers. We had seen one on day 1 but today's were even better as the walk along the glacial lake was quiet, there was broken ice floating everywhere and then it led out to the black beach full of glacial ice. We even saw a seal enjoying the tides. Another little stop along the way was the unique martian like lava field landscape, stretching for miles one way whilst the tops of glaciers were in the other direction. We ended the day with a chat with some Germans over some soup at another great farm guesthouse.Läs mer