Our flight from Boston was delayed 2 hours but when we arrived at Keflavik Airport it was like early evening, then came the announcement " Welcome to Iceland where the local time is 1am!" A very expensive taxi took us to a local hotel where we crashed for the night.
28.05.15 We collected our rental and proceeded to tour the southwest tip of the island via the coast road with The Blue Lagoon as the ultimate stop. It was our 38th wedding anniversary so we had lunch in the gourmet restaurant (we had heard that food in Iceland was not great but this was excellent). By the time we finished, the queue had thinned out (at 50 euros per person the place must make a fortune) so we donned swim suits, painted our faces with volcanic mud and celebrated with some prosecco in the pool.
Civilised indeed:
After a short tour of Reykjavik we found our hotel, had a bowl of soup for supper and retired for the night.
Three quarters of the population live around the capital and the majority of attractions are within a 100 mile radius, the rest would require an internal flight or a minimum of 8 hours driving so we are staying within reach of Reykjavik. The main tourist route is the Golden Circle, nobody seems sure where the name originated but it takes in a variety of landscapes, mountain and volcano views and everything associated with geothermal activity.
Advertised as more furious than Niagara the falls at Gullfoss are impressive.
The first Icelandic parliament (Alpingi) was formed in 930AD at Pingvellir which is now a National Park. It is a tranquil setting overlooking the lake and is also one of the sites where one can see evidence of the Eurasian Plate and the North Atlantic drifting apart (perhaps that's why they moved!). We are a little early for some of the grass to green up and the flowers to come out but it is beautiful nonetheless.
28.05.15 We collected our rental and proceeded to tour the southwest tip of the island via the coast road with The Blue Lagoon as the ultimate stop. It was our 38th wedding anniversary so we had lunch in the gourmet restaurant (we had heard that food in Iceland was not great but this was excellent). By the time we finished, the queue had thinned out (at 50 euros per person the place must make a fortune) so we donned swim suits, painted our faces with volcanic mud and celebrated with some prosecco in the pool.
Civilised indeed:
After a short tour of Reykjavik we found our hotel, had a bowl of soup for supper and retired for the night.
Three quarters of the population live around the capital and the majority of attractions are within a 100 mile radius, the rest would require an internal flight or a minimum of 8 hours driving so we are staying within reach of Reykjavik. The main tourist route is the Golden Circle, nobody seems sure where the name originated but it takes in a variety of landscapes, mountain and volcano views and everything associated with geothermal activity.
Advertised as more furious than Niagara the falls at Gullfoss are impressive.
The first Icelandic parliament (Alpingi) was formed in 930AD at Pingvellir which is now a National Park. It is a tranquil setting overlooking the lake and is also one of the sites where one can see evidence of the Eurasian Plate and the North Atlantic drifting apart (perhaps that's why they moved!). We are a little early for some of the grass to green up and the flowers to come out but it is beautiful nonetheless.
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