Bed And Breakfast, Keflavik Airport Keflavík

... tourists are standing in it. How droll is that!

That was the end of our tour and I really enjoyed it. Another new experience for Iceland. I hope that the weather is good tomorrow because I am supposed to fly to Westman Island where an eruption in 1973 meant the whole island was evacuated in 2 hours as the ash and lava covered houses. I would really like to see that. and if the weather is really good, I should be able to spot Surtsey from the island too. fingers crossed please.

... calm, neither excited or afraid of the adventures awaiting me. Maybe I was a bit numb from it all, or possible, my life philosphy taken from my dad (who got it from Halldór Laxness) "It will all go one way or another" was really becoming my motto. Nothing had shaken me during those last few weeks, as I had calmy but as much of my affairs in order as possible, nothing had upset me. I felt content, I felt happy.... I feel happy.

... of confounding, but fun. We frolicked for a while, wandering around through the (artificial) caves and tunnels and mazes, tried out the silca mud facial masks, and generally enjoyed ourselves. And then, it happened. Ethan and I bathed with Bjork! Seriously. I'd thought about writing something like that jokingly, but then it actually happened! We were hanging around in the pool near this (fake) waterfall.. standing underneath it feels like getting a neck massage, the water ...

... get, the colder it gets! Just before the glacier we stop at this place so the others could change for their snowmobile tour and then we drove them to the snowmobiles. While they did their tour we rode up on the glacier and walked around a bit. Everywhere we could see there was ice. Since it was "warm" out (37° F), the ice was melting and there were little pools and streams of water on top of the ice. If you looked down the ice was blue underneath and the pools ...

After arriving at the hostel at midnightish, we were shattered and went promptly to bed... Our last full day, we ventured to the Blue Lagoon for 3 odd hours of hot thermal springs...twas lovely...the only obstacles were the nude showers that preceded our dip in the pool and figuring out the lockers...$30 or ...

... and swam around a bit. We put mud on our faces to cleanse the skin and Patrick ended up getting it in his eyes and ruining his contacts which was not good. We went in the steam room and under a waterfall to get massaged. It was nice overall. At the airport we shopped a bit to spend the last of our Icelandic krona and ate a quick lunch. The flight back was ok - we had 3 seats to ourselves so we were able to stretch out. That's it!

... to fall asleep so we got out of the car for a walk to get fresh air and to wake up! We walked through a small forest, walked on some snow, and I SWEAR I heard some beautiful music Patrick didn't hear (elves?? haha). Amazingly, the hotel was the next stop on the journey. It was really cool - the view to the North was the mountain with the glacier - covered with snow - to the East was another mountain (a nearby one) with waterfalls cascading down - to ...

... 700 ISK!!!) then went to the change rooms...european standards for nudity were very quickly noticed, it wasn't for the prudish. We got changed and went out into the lagoon, a volcanic thermal pool that is also the run off from the nearby power station. Water temperature varied between 25 and 40 degrees and was pale blue in colour and opaque due to the silica and algae int he water. The bottom of the lagoon was ...

So, lets talk about yesterday..... before the rain came! I met Stein (family friend) at 13:00hrs at Parliament - I was easy to spot - the grubby traveler amongst the politicians! Stein is an MP, representing the Left Green Party, hence the arrangement to meet him at work. Lucky for me I got a grand tour of Parliament before I´d even wandered down the main street of Reykjavik! Later in the day Stein picked me up and took me back to their place for dinner. His ...

Day 2: July 8, 2007 Frederick to Somewhere over the North Atlantic I slept blissfully until after 9:00 when everyone else was already up. After a few cups of coffee and good conversation, we packed up our bags and headed over to Columbia where we had an excellent vegetarian lunch at The Great Sage. We then went to Target where I bought a watch. Our next mission was a ...