Iceland: South Shore Adventure - Part 1

She gazed out of the window of the coach, smiling at the scenery and saying, "wow!" in her head.

The first stop on the tour was at the Sólheimajökull glacier:



She walked through the pouring rain to stare at the glacier, amongst the ice and snow and lava.

On the way back, she noticed bit of melting ice on the hillside and when she stood still and watched, she could see what almost looked like tiny black creatures wriggling underneath the ice. It seemed magical to her at that moment, the melting of ice.

The next sight was Iceland's most southern village - Vík í Mýrdal. The rain had stopped and the sun shone then, as she wandered towards the sea. She sat on the beach with black sand and ate her sandwiches, and watched the tremendous roaring waves. The distant waves looked like clouds, and she thought about how there was no land mass between where she was and Antarctica.

Waves (or are they former trolls?):


Church:


Then she visited Reynisfjara beach and it was so windy that she thought maybe she would start to fly.

She also walked inside a cave, and stared at the asphalt pillars:



The cave had a ceiling made of jagged rocks, so she did not stay inside for long.

Next, she climbed many steps to get to the top of the waterfall, Skógafoss Waterfall, and watched the water rushing down. At the bottom of the waterfall was a rainbow and she felt amazed at the sight.

Iceland: South Shore Adventure - Part 2

The girl with only one glove (she lost the other in Vík) went inside the folk museum and listened to the guide at first, who explained that when she was young, if she looked like she might be a bit pale or getting ill, her grandmother would ask if she had been eating too much fresh food. In her grandmother's time, fresh food was scarce and as they were not used to it, could make them feel ill if they did eat it.

The girl with only one glove looked at the objects in the museum - the inscriptions on the bed boards, the old bottles from Hull, and then she went outside and into the turf houses. These were small wooden houses that had roofs with turf over them.



She then briefly looked around the transport museum, at snowmobiles and old telephone switchboards.

The coach tour continued and she saw a waterfall running sideways, and mountains, beautiful snow covered mountains (or were they volcanoes?), and pylons amongst snow.



The coach stopped and she got off the coach, along with the other tourists, and stood next to a field, looking for the glacier - Eyjafjallajökull, and the volcano that erupted just a few years ago.

Back on the coach and then it was time to stop at Seljalandsfoss.



She followed a slippery path that took her behind the waterfall and there was a rainbow waiting for her there, which she walked through.

She had very much enjoyed her first full day in Iceland and found it all amazing and wondrous.