2013.04.07 - Some numbers and data of our trip to Iceland

Kilometers driven: starting with mileage 216.415 km: 3.540
Color of the car: gold.
Gas used: gas for 407 Euro and 20 Cents.
Number of free seats in our car, with all our luggage: a little bit less than 0.
Streets used: mostly ring street, quite some gravel roads (but 'minor stratches' are ok according to our rental company)
Weather: mostly either sunny or snowy. Twice in two weeks, we had rain.
Number of 32 GB SD-cards filled up: 3
Number of photos and videos: 3375

2013.03.07 - Home again

Today, we just walked around in the city, strolling around, in bookshops and other shops. We didn't really get into the opera house as we would have needed tickets, but we walked through Christiania, the Freetown Christiania. A cosy and comfortable last day of our trip to Iceland. At 6.45, we took the train to the airport, and the plane to Vienna, without anything worth mentioning.

Home again! Sad to leave Iceland and Denmark, but happy to be home.

2013.04.06 - Copenhagen

....Around 1 am, when the movie was finished, we found a cosy bar and I had a Pepsi at almost the price of a double so big beer. After that, we continued to the airport and the drop-off of the car. At 7 am we left Iceland. Next stop: Copenhagen. We found the Dan Hostel quite quickly, had a short rest, and two of us had a walk while the third one was taking a bit more rest (which, retrospectively, would also have made some sense for me). In the evening, we had a mexican buffet as dinner and I was happy to get to bed.

2013.04.05 - Golden Circle

We wanted to be prepared for the following night, so we decided to sleep until 9 am. We left for the golden circle. First we saw a crater called Kerið, but we were already used to craters. Then we went to see the Geysir called Geysir and its more active neighbor. Then we saw the Gullfoss waterfall. Then we drove to Þingvellir. This already took the biggest part of the day. After a local traditional dinner (KFC) we bought some snacks for the flight and headed to the Blue Lagoon near Keflavík. When it closed at 8.45 pm, we drove back to Reykavík and decided spontaneously to go to the movies - we had to pull an all-nighter as we had to drop off our car at 5 am and didn't have a hostel. So we went to see a film which turned out to be the danish version of 'The Hunt' ('Jagden') with icelandic subtitles.

2013.04.04 - Selfoss

After a good breakfast at the very nice hostel of Vík, we had a look into the wool shop (I bought a pair of socks) and headed westwards. We saw the waterfalls Skogarfoss and Glúfurárfoss. In Landeyahöfn we spontaneously tried to catch a ferry to the Vestmammaeyar, but there was no ferry at a good time. So we walked around and had fun in the beach in the west of the ferry. We headed back to the watefalls to finally also find the Seljalandsfoss, which was a bit hidden behind the other ones.
We continued to Selfoss, as we had to check in. One of us wanted to drive back to take photos of the falls, the others went to the swimming pool nearby - so many people! - we really are back in populated area.
Shortly after midnight, we saw a very small northern light, so barely worth mentioning. (Nevertheless..-it's a northern light!)

2013.04.03 - Vík

As we had breakfast, we were the only ones in the hostel. We left around 10 and drove back, eastwards to the Skaftafell, where we walked to the Svartifoss, the waterfall surrounded by basaltic rocks. A hint, that a so-called 'diamond cave' should be visited, turned out to be wrong as it is the wrong season and the diamond cave nonexisting. But it would have been nice to be in a cave surrounded by ice and lit by the sun from above. Another time.
We headed back westwards, passed the Fagrifoss and other small (not so famous) waterfalls.
We checked in in Vík, and drove to the area around the Reynisfjall and to Dyrhólaey, the bays and beaches east of Vík. Lots of photos were taken.
Good night!

2013.04.02 - Hvoll

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...