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Trying something new. A cod fish paste out of a tube. Not bad actually, much like a pâté.
Every morning I wake feeling more and more dazed and light headed. Today I’m not even sure the coffee will help ease it. Not enough sleep is adding up. In the west its a lot sunnier, thus brighter, and since sunset is at 11:30+ pm, there’s not much of a semi dusk here anymore. @_@
A quick pullover to capture and share with you one of the typical amazing sprawling scenery of mountains/volcano, valleys, sea. Yesrday on the 1,5 hrs 2nd stretch of my longer drives, I saw andvcounted only 10 other cars en route, some stretches with no habitants at all. It’s pretty isolated here, in the Northwest fjords.
After meeting a local at the info centre who had similar love for design and architecture, I asked her what she would recommend I must see or do in the port of the north, Akureyi, while avoiding the hoards of cruise ship tourists. I chose this, best ice cream in Iceland, and then checked out the new cafe/bistro up in the botanical gardens. Will post photos of the beautiful building when I get to d/l images off my dslr 🙂 Here: a strawberry and vanilla soft serve dipped in caramel chocolate. I quite liked the ice cream, super light, only a hint of sweetness. The coating was just the right amount of sweetness to balance in.
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Mývatn Nature Baths. After whale watching and a museum, made my way back into Myvatn for the rest of the day.
The milky sulphur smelling water is a bit thicker yet more gave me more bouyancy it seems. I managed to walk around the pool neck deep without fearing that I would for sure drown (phobia of drowning after childhood incident).
View from above the wheelhouse. Decided to climb up there for the ride back. It was a bit scary as the boat was rocking, but so worth it.
Sadly my great footage of a humpback whale got eaten up by my phone 🙁 instead here’s a video of Minke Whales, sorry for the quality, rocking boat and they are faster moving.
This morning I went on a whale watching tour. Double suited up here, since it was pouring rain, figured I make sure I would stay extra warm and dry, on top of my own prep. Felt like Ralphie’s little brother in The Christmas Story. Haha… It was entertaining to watch grown men (European ones) trying to reason why they didn’t need the suit, then give in, and I’m sure glad they sis once we headed out to sea. The wind and rain was so biting that tears kept streaming down my face at some points.
My day’s end treat 🙂 after yesterday’s epic long commute, I’m still a little vehicle-lagged. Crazy, I know. I happuly had no problems on the choppy sea this morn. But while sitting/floating at the hot spring, I felt vertigo. So weird.