Hofn to Egilsstaðir

I woke up to the sweet smell of tea and enjoyed my cereal in the sun. Can you believe it? Unfortuantly though it was still too cold and there were still swarms of flies outside making it less pleasant to eat outside . As soon as we finished our breakie and washed up we were on the road to the Viking village, it was made for a movie set in 2009 but was scrapped due to budget reasons. It had been used as a tourist destination owned by the local cafe and was even rented again for another movie set in 2018. This one fortuantly was succesful, filmed for the movie Viking about the early settlers of Iceland. The drive was like the rest of Iceland stunning but bumpy, going under mountains in our first tunnel and coming back in the tunnel as dad made a wrong turn. Passing the moodily gothic vestrahorn mountain we found the outpost where we parked Wendy. It was only a ten minute walk from the car park but of course we made it half an hour after we’d managed to lose Eashan’s drone in a swamp. After finally retrieving the drone and making it to the village, we perused around the area that looked so real it could be mistaken for the actual thing. We had a big disccusion about a whale bone being real, dad and I were a hundred percent sure it was real and of course we were right after some locals confirmed it with us ! The return to the van was much quicker as we kept the drone under closer wraps! 😂 Then we took a short 5 minute drive to the beach on Stokness. The strong wind was blowing in our face and during our walk we could how quickly
the mist collecting meaning it became tricker to see for more than 20 metres. The sea was picturesque and the thought of a hot chocolate in the van made the bracing walk worth while. We then began on a long drive to Egilsstaoir. Driving there the scenery kept on getting prettier and prettier, stopping a few times to look at the stunning views, lunch breaks and even cheeky loo stops. After a long 2 hours full of podcasts, sleeping and laughter we had arrived at Vok, Iceland’s only floating pools. The baths here are fully heated by geothermal energy, we even plunged into the cool 5 degree Urriavatn lake, only to quickly scramble back out again. After we had a quick drink, and a short time in the sauna we had our first warm shower of the week- the changing rooms here seem far more relaxed than at home and nudity was far more apparentl as Eashan kept exclaiming quite loudly! We went and found Wendy all starving and drove the final stretch to our campsite. Dad quickly whipped up a delicious stir fry before anyone got too hangry. The yummy meal filled us up as we settled down to watching 2 more episodes of the entertaining and gruesome artful dodger. A good day again!Read more