ICELAND - PART 3

Final full day before heading back to Reykjavik, public transport was not very regular in that part of the world and as much as I like the tours I had been on they had cost a small fortune and I wanted to do something different.

I started walking in the direction of Mount Sulur not intending to climb to the top but just get as far as I could. It was a long way just to get to the start of the climb itself. The motivation to get to the top came from seeing people at least 20-30 years older than myself coming back from there.


I couldn't go Iceland without getting a picture of myself in some snow. No matter where I am in the world, climbing a mountain in Iceland or walking around Dubai I always seem to wear the exact same amount of clothing (Jeans and T-shirt)



The view at the top was worth it even if I did have some painful slips on the snow pictured above on the way back down. On getting back I had 2 shocks. Firstly I had got sunburned which was the last thing I had expected, Second I had done the round trip in just over 5 hours when the guidebook said allow at least 7 hours for the return journey. Not bad for saying I had about half a dozen beers the night before !!!!!!!!!!!!!

I did go out that evening but it didn't seem to happen as it had done the previous one so I had an early night.


I flew back to Reykjavik and back to the same hostel as before. It had seemed unsocial for the number of people before but this time I got talking to an Australian in my dorm room. Soon we had arranged to do the one thing missing from the trip which was a proper night out on the town.

We headed to several bars some full of tourists, some full of locals , some inbetween but all of them good. I quickly noticed that they seem to throw as much alcohol down their throats as in the cities back home. The big difference being that I didn't see any police, any arguments, any fights or anything  in the way of bad attitude. I also noticed that there was hardly any overweight people despite there being fastfood outlets everywhere.

They obviously do something right!!!!!!!!!!!!



The last but one day in Iceland I took a look at the small but interesting Saga museum and walked past the beach area.

After that I felt like I had done everything that I had wanted to see and do in that city. I was hoping for another night out with the Australian but he was on a long trip round Europe and having to watch his budget.


Due to the fact I had an early morning flight back home I had to spend the last night at Keflavik. It was a purely functional town, nothing wrong with and ok to walk round for a couple of hours but that was it. The hostel was a good place to stay just a pity about the location.

Apart from the costs Iceland had been a great place to visit. Another "northern trip" maybe Greenland or the Faroe islands is definitely on the cards for the future................