Today is the day of the whales. The wind has dropped and the water looks a lot calmer than yesterday. I go for a walk and find the supermarket. Go in to get some orange juice and immediately hit by bakery smells that are enough to get me buying croissants for breakfast. Yummo. Get organized, dump our waste waters (yes even the toilet has been used as an emergency). No issues and we have been given the go ahead to use the toilet if needed. Do a tour of Davlik which takes all of 10 minutes then head back to Hauganes. On the way we get a call from Jessica with the last minutes of the Melbourne/Brisbane game. Melbourne are 5 points down, having been over 20 points down for quite a while. This is a ... read more

Down day today. Decided after all the driving since we have picked up the Motorhome that we needed a quieter day. Slept in till around 0900 then did the usual of shower, breakfast and clean up. Facilities at this camp site are excellent. Showers and toilets are shared so a bit compromising when you come out of the toilet and have a lovely young girl applying make up beside you while washing your hands…. Anyway, showers hot and strong (geo thermal heating everywhere) and we were lucky with no waiting involved. So hot if you aren’t careful you can scald yourself. Packed up and decided to do the lake (Myvatn - found out vatn means lake so maybe I am double dipping). Stopped at a farm to plate place and booked dinner then did stops here ... read more

Left our campsite relatively early after finishing a load of washing - dirty deeds done dirt cheap…. Off to our day of the glacier. We had booked a boat tour of the Fjallsarlon Glacier. The drive was brilliant with views of waterfalls and the glacier as we drove along. This glacier is huge and has many tongues coming down to lakes or just ending up in a paddock somewhere. We eventually made it in plenty of time after all these great sights along the way. Got kitted up for wet weather and boat splashes. They provide a heavy duty jacket as well. A 7 minute walk along a rocky track to the lake where the sight of the glacier not far away was superb, along with all the floating icebergs. So many that one of the ... read more

And away we go. Picked up from our hotel by the Motorhome people after a surprisingly good breakfast, and we thought our hotel was basic….. Signed our life (and second daughter) away to get the Motorhome. Then we get the rundown on how everything works. Including how to empty the toilet. Eeeww. Maybe only for emergencies we all thought. Finally out of the Motorhome place. Almost stalled it but recovered and also stayed on the right (wrong side for us) side. To the supermarket where we spent the kids inheritance on food etc. And yes, everything in Iceland is expensive. Off we go towards Reykjavík (capital city of iceland) where I wanted to look at an Icelandic jumper. Found our way to the Red Cross op shop but no bargains. A few places had them but ... read more

Slept pretty well considering the hour we got in here. There was no car for us at the airport but got a taxi which was cheaper than quoted by the hotel and got us here in no time. Woke up around 0830 so decided to stay up and do breakfast seeing it was included in the room price. Got down there just after 1000 as breakfast was due to finish at 1030. No sign of that end time, as more and more people filtered in after 1030 and the food kept on coming out. Good brekky, we filled up before the fight so we didn’t need to do lunch. Went back to the room and repacked the bags - again. This time we decided to “lose” some old jocks and socks rather than bring them home ... read more