It is even more amazing when you arrive there in the dark at 0445.
Driving North is a pretty dreary thing. Grey, you can see the ocean, and rocks. Lots of rocks:
And then, you come upon the Blue Lagoon:
The Blue Lagoon, interestingly enough, is actually manmade, a run off pond for a geothermal plant. People starting soaking here in the 1990s and were reputed to have relief from certain skin conditions. Now, it is a swanky resort.
We stayed in an Air BNB at Hafnarforður, a subub of Reykjavik. On clear days, apparently you can see across the bay to a glacier.
Reykjavik is the capital (and main city) of Iceland - but surprisingly for a museum buff, there were not a whole lot of museums. The downtown is cute and old (and therefore, no pictures as it is just buildings. One place we did go is Hallgrimskirkja:
It was started in 1945 and completed in 1986 and is 244 feet high at the highest point:
You can go up in the tower. The views are quite spectacular:
In front of the Cathedral is a statue of Leif Erikson (Leif the Lucky), a gift from the US to Iceland on the anniversary of the 1000th anniversary of the Althing, the Icelandic parliament:
What were air fares like TB?
ReplyDeleteGlen, we went via WOW air. We paid about $450 a ticket round trip - which for four of us included two carry-ons, 1 checked bag, and reserved seats. It is a pay as you go airline, but was no worse than Southwest.
ReplyDeleteSo that space shuttle looking building is a cathedral? That's some organ!
ReplyDeleteIt is, Leigh. I believe completely out of concrete. And yes, the organ was as amazing as I have seen - I would have loved to hear it!
ReplyDeleteNo pictures just because they were only buildings? They might have been as neat as all your other pictures. :-)
ReplyDeleteLinda, I am not much of a modern architecture guy, and most of the things we saw on day one were. I did take some on day six, which I will post.
ReplyDeleteI like looking simply because other countries build so much differently than we do. :)
ReplyDeleteAh. I should have taken pictures of where we stayed. In general, the "regular" housing structures remind me a lot of Norway: angular, sealed up for warmth.
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