I’m a little late in this post, but I figure I should finish the trip, just like we finished the ring road. On the 6th day Aaron and I made our way back to Rekyjavik to check into our hotel and of course meet up with Brad who was arriving Friday morning.
- We thoroughly enjoyed randomly stopping to pet the horse or watch the ponies run.
- Icelandic horses are smaller than your normal breed. And just as cute!
- Yes, we did eat some horse, normally in a salami type of texture. We didn’t eat any horse steaks or anything like that!
- On the way to Reykjavik, we stopped in this little fjord town.
- We had to drive on a windy road high along the coast, we entered a tunnel and we were then in the fjord town.
- Snack time, this is where I saw the sub sandwich with Doritos in it. I had a bacon and cheese sub and finished it off with a chocolate covered doughnut that had little chocolate covered licorice nibs on top. Very tasty.
- The owner of the bakery said he had a relative in Canada but didn’t know where. We then found out that Manitoba is recruiting Icelanders for their talent!
- The town was cute, the cemetary was cute, and we just walked around taking it all in.
Drive into Reykjavik
- Pretty uneventful, but beautiful country, mountains and scenery.
- The highlight of the drive was the Hvalfjörður Tunnel under the fjord just before Reykjavik.
- The tunnel goes 165m below sea level and is almost 6KM long. It was pretty damn amazing.
- You have to pay to use it or I would have taken Brad through just for fun.
- It cuts off the drive around the fjord by 45km. Not bad!
- After 7 says of the country we were looking forward to hopefully some comforts and of course good food.
- We arrived and met with the owner of the Apartment we rented.
- We had him drive us to the liquor store… we needed wine!
- Our apartment was spacious and really modern right on the main street of the city.
- We walked around in the balmy evening and took it all in. The street came alive and tonnes of live music was playing and restaurants and bars were pretty full.
- Aaron read this restaurant was supposed to be fantastic… and we wanted something different to eat.
- We ordered the Guillemot, Lamb and naan.
- We got butter chicken, lamb, and tandoori chicken.
- The waitress was new, luckily the food was fantastic and quite delightful.
- At the end of the meal, the owner said we should try the Guillemot. That is thought we had eaten when we ate the tandoori chicken!
- He gave us two free meals so we shall return.
- We felt like celebrities with the owner at our table fawning over us, it was great.
- As per the Apartment owner, there is no pre-meditated murder in Iceland. Only the kind where you are mad at your wife and all you have is a drawer full of knives and you stab her to death.
- Guillemot does not look like Tandoori chicken, nor does it taste like it.
- Dried haddock is fracking disgusting. It was described in the guide book as having the flavour of toenails. They were right, but it is still a crowd pleasure with the locals.