We didn’t have wifi last night, so this is a day late…
We only had a 1h39 drive from our fishing village to our new temporary home – so we took the opportunity to check out the fishing village further as well as take far too many stops and oggle the scenery on the way. It was designed as a bit of a rest day so we took advantage of it.
However, 5 minutes after Glen exclaimed he was keen for some off-the-beaten track adventure, Glen decided it’d be a good idea to try and find a driving track to the “pyramid mountain”. That involved driving through what looked like a bit of grass. That grass was basically floating in water and loose dirt, which quickly turned into mud and quicker yet, I had us bogged. Well off the main road, no-one around and I’m shitting myself. I got out of the car, had Soph get in the driver’s seat while I went to attempt to push it out. What I hadn’t tried before then was using the “Lock” features of the 4WD. With Soph’s steady foot, she was able to reverse us out of the bog as I thankfully looked on without having to push and praying to the local Gods that we were away!
Our destination was an organic farm B&B just near Egilsstaoir in east Iceland. It was a pretty awesome experience – we were in the middle of basically nowhere on a large working farm where there was no wifi, no phone reception for internet data at least, no music and no tv. It was the quietest place we’ve been to in who knows how long. It was also the smallest! Here’s some photos of what we saw on our way and at the B&B:
