Day 6: North Iceland / Reykjavik
- Akureyri
- Reykjavik
We were originally planning on doing West Iceland and Snaefellsnes Peninsula for this day, but because we fell in love with Akureyri so much, what with the amazing light show the night before, we decided to stay in town a little bit more, and just drive back to Reykjavik and do Snaefellsnes the next day.
The town was even more charming because it was sunny. It had a very happy vibe. We finally gave in to 66 north, but not with the uber expensive coats, we both got sweaters that we could also use here when we go up north, boy oh boy, they feel so good and warm.
I’ve been bugging G since Day 1, about stopping the car to take pictures of these beautiful Icelandic horses (they’re all over Iceland!), but we couldn’t find a perfect spot to stop the car, or it was always too late, speed limit is 90kph when you’re at the Ring Road, so we couldn’t just stop, especially if a car is behind us, there are no shoulders on the road, FYI. So finally, on our way back to Reykjavik, I was the one driving, and saw this farmhouse with all the horses gathered by the fence. We stopped by and rang the door bell, I asked the owner of the house if we could take pictures, he just said “ok, sure”. I imagine he probably always gets random visitors like us.
On our way back, while I was driving, of course we went through a tunnel again and got really stressed driving especially when we got to Reykjavik, so many traffic rules, I’m not used to it!
We arrived at our airbnb, and the hosts are an old couple, and they told us stories about their family. Our favorite host and airbnb so far.
That night we had a last seating reservation at the Fish Market, and it was really good, but expensive too, but what the heck!
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