Had a clear cold night at Lake Myvatn near the town of Reykjahlio and Bill captured the Aurora as she danced through the night — around 1:00 AM.
The verbiage to go with the geothermal photos and mudpots
Okay, my blogging skills aren’t all they could be — the verbiage didn’t show up with the photos.
The photos in the last post below were from Namafjall, a geothermal area in Northeast Iceland. Loved it! It was so unusual and exotic with steam rising here and there and bubbling mudpots. And stinky sulfur air. The hot springs produce sulfur deposits. The steam is caused by cold ground water seeping down into magma intrusions where it is heated, turned into steam and comes back to the surface. More than that I cannot say and hey, I’m on vacation so that’s as much brainwork as I can handle at the moment.
Hotel Smyrlabjorg Hotel, South Coast, Iceland
Our fanciest hotel so far with modern conveniences in this mountainous peaceful setting with sheep all around.
It was a foggy rainy day as it wore on and Maureen chilled out in this quiet setting, walking the grounds, reading and listening to the sheep.
Food and drink are pricey everywhere. When anyone in our group starts converting krona to US dollars and moans and says whaaaaaat? One of us always chimes in with “don’t think about it; it can’t be helped!”
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Foggy drizzly day here but that didn’t stop my photographer. Bill got good and wet in the rain and photographed these images at the black sand beach.
Scenes…photos from Bill…
Hofskirkja church is a beautiful turf church in Southeast Iceland. Still used as a parish church. There are only 6 turf churches left in Iceland. Built in the 1800s, the church walls are made of rock and the roof is made of stone slabs covered with turf. 
Good Wi-Fi Right Now so Some More Scenes…this time glacier and glacial ice
This country is so diverse in term of landscape! To the right is a huge glacier (won’t attempt the name but will have a list of where we were when we are done) we visited yesterday.
Also, a plaque nearby dedicated to two young German men missing since 2007 two separate incidents. It seems both attempted to camp on the glacier. One tent was found but after an intense search for days they did not find either young man.
Heartbreaking.
Dangerous, beautiful place.
Rocky, rough, wild roads
Did I mention some of the wild, rocky roads? Right in the middle of nowhere, on Sunday, we discovered that a big rock was stuck in one of the tires. Here, our guide Simone (in lavendar) works with three others to pull the rock out with a rope. Success! Then they found another rock in a tired on the other side. We were concerned that one or the other tire was punctured and we were in the middle of nowhere! and on a Sunday. Fortunately no puncture! And on we went…
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