Friday, 6 April 2012

"Mist"yfied in the City








Our Northern Lights tour was cancelled due to the bad weather last night - and we woke up to continued mist and drizzle this morning!
However, as very little stops us, we set off into the city - an easy 10 minute walk. As you can see from the photos it was grotty, but a sweet little city. We began at the lovely cathedral which was smaller than most of our parish churches. From there we investigated the 2 main shopping streets full of (closed) art and craft shops. Not a High street shop to be found. We hadn't worked out that the 5 days we are in Iceland is a 5 day Easter holiday weekend, but we aren't shoppers anyway.
Then to Hallgrimskirkja, a fantastic church built between the 1940s and 80s. We even had a little snooze through the Good Friday service.
We carried on mooching through the city and having a great coffee and cake for lunch before investigating the harbour and seaside.
We ended at the Reykjavik 871 +/-2 Museum which is about the excavation of a Viking longhouse in situ before wandering back to the hotel via one last church and the Tjornin City Pond in Pavillion Park.
All a bit chilly and wet - but a great day.

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