Hvítir dagar og hvítar nætur

The sun rose at around 4:00am this morning.  I woke up a bit before that out of normal sleep problems. I fell back asleep and woke up at 6:00am. We got dressed and made our way down to have breakfast. The breakfast buffet was small with ham(s), cheese, tomatoes, cucumbers, hardboiled eggs with bread and yogurt. They had oranges and some fruit and granola for the yogurt and also had jams and peanut butter for the bread. The coffee was eh but did the job. There was cereal of some kind (looked liked frosted flakes) and also juice. Over all the breakfast was satisfying. We left around 8:15am and walked to the coast to see the island Viðey. Viðey is the largest island of the Kollafjörður Bay in Iceland. After we walked down a little way to a higher spot to get more pictures of mountains across the bay.

My bfast

Brian's bfast

We then made our way to Hallgrímskrikja. It is the largest church in Iceland. Near the church there is a statue of Leif Eriksson. The statue was a gift from the United States in honor of the 1930 Alþingi Millennial Festival, commemorating the 1000th anniversary of Iceland's parliament at Þingvellir in 930 AD. 

Hallgrímskirkja

From Hallgrímskrikja we made our way toward to Nauthólsvík. It is located over by the Reykjavík airport and Reykjavík University. We took a small detour up to Perlan. Perlan is located on the hill Öskjuhlíð where there had been hot water storage tanks for decades. In 1991 the tanks were updated and a hemispherical structure placed on top. After the trek up to Perlan we took a few photos and made our way through the wooded area to the main road so we could head to the water.

Perlan

The wind decided to pick up, we could barely hear each talking when we were walking. After we made it to Nauthólsvík we sat and watch the water and some ducks swimming. We saw a woman taking a swim and then while we were walking on the sandy beach she was heading to the hot water to warm herself back up.

Brian and Nauthólsvík

We started the trek back to the hotel learning that we were both already tired and ready to relax (LOL). We made are way back to the church and through the center of town and back up to the hotel.

Plans for the evening are still up in the air. Most shops and things (that we saw) were closed on Sundays. There is a movie theater not to far from us that we might decide to go to and watch a film.

All in all a great day so far.

-Tveir Ferðalangar-