Hotel Akureyri

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We drove along the NO 1 until Akureyri. It was a pretty little town with brightly coloured houses. Second largest after Reykjavik. We ate delicious Thai lunch - a fusion of Icelandic fish and Thai curry. I had Stir fish (never heard of that one before) in a 'karry' (Icelandic for curry). Senica had the buffet - 'smorgasbord', if you will. The guy there asked me why we had chosen Iceland for a honeymoon - I stumbled with an answer ...

... taken over frozen lands in National Geographic. There is the vast layout of barren black lava, laced with countless shiny patches of small lakes, tiny ponds and curly streams, in every and shape. Sometimes we pass deltas around sea with equally numborous and variable headlands popping out of blue water. Then the elevation gets higher. Dead volcanos, their cones choke full of grayish blue glaciers, stick out. At the end of those blue icesheets melt water ...

WARNING: Never expect to enter Icelandic public showers with your dignity unless prepared to put up a fight/lie/claim legal reasoning!

Arriving in the changing rooms having eft our shoes outside, we approached showers with that increasing sense of dread. Everyone who went swimming on the scenic our had managed to get away with keeping themselves covered, but we all knew what to expect and feared the worst. Let's face ...

... that she'was purple (and had a purple cast!) because she'd been in this paint/water fight thing. Oops... Then there was a young boy who'd hurt his foot and came in with a friend. He sat down and was reading a book all about fractures, haha! When I went through to be seen I was still chuckling because as the boy was having his foot looked at, his friend was standing there with a plastic (I THINK!) knife!

It doesn't sound very ...

... so we put it into the hot chocolates... As we were walking to the campfire, Charlier pointed out that her coffee was a greenish colour and had floaty bits in it. Not so long afterwards, having finished my somewhat odd looking hot chocolate, Beth came up to me and said that they'd smelled the milk and it was moldy... I think it was Jenny who discivered that we'd actually used YOGHURT! Well Beth and I were in absolute fits of laughter when we found this out! HAHA!

Our guide, christine, and her mother and her grandfather were all born invthe old farmhouse next to the hotel. Now the bar. When her great great great great grandfather bought the farm, it included an obligation of hospitality and so a summer duty for the children had always included showing tourists around in addition to farming. This is probably easier today than in 1897 when the 40 km ...

Yesterday Petros and I hiked around the town of Akureyri under the sunniest sky I've seen since I've been in Europe. We tried to hit all the Akureyrien hot-spots, but alas, there aren't any, really. The museums we tried were mostly closed or unappealing, except for the Akureyri City museum, which was quite good. We got a decent glimpse into life here for the past 200 years. I remembered that Reykjavik means ...

... Circle, before learning the Arctic Circle only passes through Iceland at a tiny island called Grímsey. I decided I´d still try to make it there, even if it meant hitching a ride on a plane. I reached the Akureyri airport, thanks in large part to a 20-year old who works 84 hours a week on a farm. But that´s as far as I got. Despite my brilliant logical persuasion of pumping my fist and saying, "C´mon!", the captain told me I couldn´t ...

... bubbling, spurting mud pits. The smell was overwhelming...and the ground was hot to the touch. We spent about an hour in the Dimmuborgir forest...a field of strange 2,000 year old contorted volcanic pillars, haunting arches, caves and tunnels. There was no place to stop for lunch or we would have stayed in this area longer....hunger drove us on. We paid our respects to Godafoss, the waterfall of the Gods. Once again, you can ...