Snowed in!

So this morning we woke up to about a foot of freshly fallen snow! My first reaction was WOW! It's so pretty! This was quickly followed up with both Sandra and Anne bringing to my attention that we may not be going anywhere due to the snow and incoming severe weather. The difference in thinking between an Aussie with limited knowledge of snow and the Germans with a fair bit of knowledge about snow.

Hmmm, what to do about this situation. Well firstly what are we able to do? Not much. The ice cave tour is cancelled and our accomodation in Vik for tonight is not at all understanding and won't refund even though we emailed at 7:30 am to let them know the situation. Oh and we're in a SELF CATERED cabin with planned provisions for one evening and one morning, pluss a few snacks! Siggy our Airbnb host does however provide us with good news of sorts. His guests for tonight are unable to make it so we can stay in that cabin. Otherwise we may have needed to move to another. So with this being the sum of it the Aussie "she'll be right" attitude comes out and "any one for a cuppa".

Next was food rationing! As mentioned we hadn't planned an extra night in self catering so meals were .... thoughtfully limited.
I had...
Breaky: packet of fruit and spice oat cakes
Lunch: 5 houmous crisps and 1 cheese crisp bread
Dinner: 2 slices bread, one with houmous spread and the othe with salmon paste and prapika cream cheese spread.
Dessert: 1 rice cake with blueberry jam
Breaky day 2: porridge with blueberry yoghurt
and throughout the day ... probably 8 coffees. Coffee does wonders for supressing appetite, haha :)

So how do you entertain yourself in a little cabin in the middle of nowhere in Iceland for the best part of 30 hours? Well, we read our books, listened to Snow Patrol, shovelled snow, wrote postcards, updated diaries, had a snowball fight, created snow angels, built a snow man, took photos, pretended to be blown away, drank coffee and I took a looong shower, haha. We also had wifi, so all in all it wasn't so bad being in our cute and cosy cabin.Leggi altro