Finally Going to Iceland!

This is really a tiny room!   Both beds are against their respective walls and the space between them is about the width of my body!   I wind up doing half of my yoga practice in the kitchen, hoping that no one decides to cook! We have breakfast in the guest house’s restaurant and the spread is far more varied!   Also, the wifi works in the restaurant, which it certainly didn’t in the room!!   I manage to get the photos added to last night’s blog just in time for our departure.   While we were eating, the family from Catalan that we met yesterday comes over to our table to say Hello!! We’re heading for Holmavik for starters, to pick up Stu’s cup from the witchcraft museum. On the door is a sign that says “Picked by Picky Locals!”   I get to see that charming, good looking young man from yesterday!How lucky that I got his email and that we had to come back this way to get to Iceland 1, often called the ring road.   It’s the ...

After going to bed so early, I was awake at five!   That gave me lots of time to add photos to yesterday’s blog and do all that morning stuff so we could go down to breakfast around nine.   Much as I love the typical Icelandic tourist breakfast, I’m sure ready for a change!   The Raspberry Rendezvous tea is quite wonderful, though!   We chat for a while with another guest, then begin bringing our things out to the car.   You have to go up and down the stairs like a crab because they are narrow and steep, so it’s easier to make a couple of trips.   Also, we need to move everything out of the trunk, so the tire is accessible. Christie comes back to the house and calls her brother’s friend to make sure he’s awake and to tell him that we’ll be there in about half an hour.   She gives us a map and tells us that we’ll have priority when we go through the one-way tunnel.   People coming the other way will have to pull into one of the pull-off....