We're back at the beach! Yaaaaay!
Cromer to Mundesley - 8 miles
Sunday, 5 August 2018
A Land of Ice and Fire - Day 5
It's our last day! We had to be out of the apartment in the morning, so we packed up the car and then went down to the Harpa, Reykjavik's concert hall. In a country of dramatic yet minimal landscapes, it makes sense to me that their sense of design would have that same simplicity and stark grandeur.
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| Photo from www.blog.icelanddesign.is/ |
Saturday, 4 August 2018
A Land of Ice and Fire - Day 4
Today we did a day's tour of the south coast by coach. Normally we'd have taken ourselves, but actually the coach trip turned out to be really informative, and of course everyone got to look out the window rather than having to drive. So much to see!
After heading out through the familiar mountains around Reykjavik, you drop down onto the coastal lowlands (passing Selfoss, the ice cream making capital of Iceland). There are lots of small firms dotted about here - we pass a microbrewery on the site of what used to be a women's prison. It just looks like a little house in the middle of nowhere!
There is a mountain range though, to our left (north). Up there are the glaciers, and the active volcano Eyjafjallajokul, which erupted in 2010 producing enough smoke to stop air travel across most of Europe for an entire week. It seems calm today!
We're also going to see a lot of waterfalls. Here's the first; Seljalandsfoss.
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