The hostel would probably have been a good place to search for the northern lights, but I preferred to go to bed (traveling is tiring ;)). Today was my turn to drive, and it was quite something, from Berunes to Hvoll, around maybe 400 km?
For me, somewhere north of Berunes was the border between the reeally vast north-eastern part of Iceland with much snow and the rather more populated, springlike southern part, way less snow, I missed the snow and emptiness already... Jökulsárlón was the first big stop, a sea with ice floes from the Vatnajökull.
In the youth hostel Hvoll, we were the only guests apart from bridge building workers; apparently there are just two teams who are able to build bridges in the whole country - one for the west and north, one for the east and south of Iceland.
No northern lights either, today. But the ones we saw were quite weak, so maybe if the estimated intensity would go up from 2 to something more, maybe we could have a second glimpse, before we leave the country...
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