Snaefellsness Peninsula, Reykjavik
From Selfoss we drove all the way up to Stykkisholmur on the Snaefellsness Peninsula in western Iceland - the last stop of our amazing journey :)
After the long drive we enjoyed a relaxing afternoon in the hot pools of Stykkisholmur - 42 degrees of water temperature at 3 degrees outside was pretty cool!
We also walked around the village, the harbour and its lighthouse and we discovered the house where they filmed "Walter Mitty" (in the movie its a pub and supposed to be in Greenland, but in reality its a cute little bookstore in Iceland :D ).
For our last day we had planned to do round-trip on the Peninsula. We managed to actually get around but we got disrupted by two things. First, as we woke up everything was white and snowy so we actually had a true icelandic snow-and-sun-mix day that prevented us from walking around a lot. And secondly, when we were halfway around we saw two people at the side of the road, waving their arms for help. They bogged their car while trying to drive into a snowy volcano crater (no shit!!!) - so we gave them a ride into the next town. It turned out that they were German as well - so now we understand what our tourguide in Reykjavik meant when he said "crazy German tourists that need to be rescued all the time" ;)
As we are writing this post we already have been to the airport, finding out that due to bad weather (in Oslo - we are actually enjoying another sunny day here :D ) we cannot make it back home today. The next flight is tomorrow in the morning so take these last pictures as a compensation for the waiting time :)
Like true Icelanders - swimming outside :)
Peninsula
This is what I call an icy beach
Ready to go - unfortunately the plane wasn't :(
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