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Wednesday, February 17, 2016

Mostly Clear and Barely Freezing- That's a Good Day - Day 2

23 Feb 2016
 A surprisingly clearish day gave us a chance to walk around the city. After a crack of dawn breakfast at 9:30 we headed down to a hotpool in the middle of a bay surrounded by a beach of golden sand imported from Morroco. We pulled up to the parking lot to see steam rising over the rocks into the icy air but alas! no water, just fridgid ocean lapping at an empty pool and golden sand covered in ice.

Second choice; the National Museum of Iceland with exhibits of artifacts from when Norwegians first sailed over in tiny open hulled boats to establish settlements on Iceland in the late 800s.

Walking around the city for the rest of the day we stopped off at the Harpa, Reykevik's concert hall. Normally I don't like contemporary style structures but with its street to roofline glass covered windows resembling a giant honeycomb, even I thought it was pretty cool.



More walking, more eating, more laughing for the rest of the day. Tomorrow we have big plans to hike and hotspring. It's a tough life sometimes.


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