Again: “Alles hat ein Ende nur die Wurst hat zwei” and we are about to leave beautiful but freezing Reykjavik tomorrow. We had another busy day today, starting with a “fancy history tour”. Our tour guide Lalli filled our brains with a ton of really interesting history, starting with the first settlers until today. He introduced us to the work of local painters, sculptures and photographers, he walked us around town to all important buildings and at the end, invited us to lunch. Splendid!

The whole afternoon we spent floating around town, drinking tea, shopping, drinking tea, and drinking tea…

Dinner was an excellent choice with great company again: Yuki & Bill

Walking home at midnight in daylight is fascinating. You feel tired and are confused about why; it’s not even dark yet and you want to go to bed now? Oh well, better switch off that light now: big day tomorrow!

Now this was an experience, a one-of-a-kind, nowhere else in the world museum with lots of interesting samples! Ted had a hard time at first, because of the typical “men compare” issue, but he got over it soon….. (lots of tiny rodent samples!) It was a lot of fun, even at their restaurant!

It is the longest day of the year and you think that the sun has a lot of time to warm up this place here, but it’s the opposite: the sun doesn’t care much; it is checking in very rarely to see if we’re still there, but that’s pretty much it. It is cold. 6 degrees Celsius with stiff winds

The good thing about it: Nothing, really

On the chippy side: Bill and Yuki arrived yesterday and we had a great time catching up / getting to know each other. Bill & Ted were best friends from elementary school onwards, that provided lots of stories of broken bones and young guys hormone driven adventures. Lots of reminiscence and laughter! We had dinner at a Vietnamese noodle house and tasty cocktails at a bar: the winner was a cinnamon & orange gin & tonic! Tasted like Christmas – very appropriate for this kind of weather!

Bill and Yuki will join us at our next adventure: a cruise around Iceland, over to Norway, down to Scotland and England, ending in Southampton / London. I’m looking forward spending time with both of them!