After a week full on with touring and empty of sleep we awoke in our fabulously positioned cabin for breakfast on our last full day in Iceland. With supplies being consumed there was now enough room in our Volkswagen Estate to do away with our daily roll call, a ritual previously necessary to ensure that those on board were not buried under the cars excess luggage.
With the car secured we headed back up the road to the nearby Seljalandsfoss Waterfall. While absent of Spring colour and with the path behind the falls not open (too icy) it was still an impressive stopover.
After a few pics we walked past the adjoining waterfalls taking in a partially hidden waterfall with an unpronounceable Icelandic name, where the gang precariously balanced on river rocks to get close up to the falls icy spray !
Duly sprayed we drove on (80 kms) to the so called Secret Lagoon at Flouir, an outdoor thermally heated pool frequented by about half of Iceland and patrolled by a life saver in a ski jacket sitting inside something that looked like an upright Pope Mobile ! Anyone drowning here would be well gone by the time the life saver entered the pool !
From Flouir we took in the touristy Golden Circle frequented by bus loads of tourists from Reyjkavik. The beautiful Gulfoss waterfall at least provided some scenery relief in the icy cold winds while Geysir provided some entertainment as unsuspecting tourists were drenched by blasts of the high rising super heated steam !
Our final stop on our circle tour of Iceland included the historic Pingvellir national park famed for its clashing Continental plates and being the site of Icelands ancient parliament .
In the gathering gloom Billy, Tegan and self got in some much needed exercise (not according to Tegan) while Monika wislely guarded the vehicle citing that she needed to be there in case the cars handbrake disengaged causing the car to roll uphill !
With our touring agenda complete it was a 1 hour drive back through peakhour Reyjkavik to the airport satellite town of Keflavik where with a bit of dedicated searching we finally found our non signed b&b.
There was only one more task now left and that was to find a restuarant where we didnt need to mortgage our house to have a meal.
Mission achieved it was back to our b&b to look forward to another 2-3 hours of sleep with a rating 5 forecast for the Northern Lights tonight the highest we've had on the tour to date.
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