Day 1 in Iceland
The view from our hotel room on our first day in Iceland.
Our first hotel in Iceland: down by the port.
Day 2 in Iceland
The only train in the country. On day 2 we wandered the town, viisted the Opera House, climbed the cathedral and visited the archeology museum where the first settlement of Reykjavik had been unearthed.
Harpan, Iceland's Opera House. Under construction when the global financial crisis hit, Iceland struggled to pay to complete it.
Inside Harpan.
The view from our hotel room at 11:48pm. End of day 2.
Day 3 in Iceland
On this day we took a whale watching tour.
The seagulls were more impressive than the whales. Gulls in Iceland are very large.
Dennis is rugged up in a water survival jacket (that everyody wore while on the boat tour to let us survie more than a few minutes if we fell into the icy water.
Day 3 in Iceland in Iceland
Hallgrímskirkja, the largest church in Iceland, constructed with concrete a material that revolutionised construction in Iceland during the 20th century.
The Reykjavik Pride march pretty much closed down the town.
Landsbókasafn Íslands, the National University and Library of Iceland. It has vellum manuscripts dating back to the 1100s.
Day 4 in Iceland
We're on the road! Þingvellir is a national park that contains the location for national assembly meetings held since the year 930 (which was only 60 years after the first Viking settlement in Iceland).
Þingvellir is a rift valley: with cracks and rifts created by the continental drift between Europe and North America.
Þingvellir.
This is Strokkur, the most active geyser in the Geysir Geothermic Area. It's near to the original Geysir that still erupts, but not as often as Strokkur which is active every ten minutes or so.
Gullfoss. Foss means "waterfall" in Icelandic. This was the first major waterfall we saw in Iceland.
Gullfoss. It's hard to capture the full volume of Gullfoss. This ten second video gives a sense of how powerfully the water is flowing.
Kerið crater lake. This was an unexpected discovery on our first day of driving in Iceland. It was much quieter than the major Golden Circle tourist spots: but a very interesting walk around a volcanic cone.
Day 5 in Iceland
Taking a ferry to the Westman Islands (Vestmannaeyjar).
Entering the harbour at Vestmannaeyjar.g
A short walk from the township on Vestmannaeyjar.
In 1973 a volcanic eruption of the mountain Eldfell began on Heimaey. It covered several streets (foreground) and almost closed the harbour, which would have rendered the island unihabitable.
Leaving Vestmannaeyjar.
Day 6 in Iceland
Seljalandsfoss.
