We got up in the middle of the night, around midnight, to see if we could see the Northern Lights again, but although the sky was clear we didn’t spot them so went back to sleep.
Halfway through the Europe trip, still got Ireland and France to go.
Woke up around 0800, still not feeling 100%, had breakfast and went into the city.
Wandered around a bit, into the cathedral where someone was playing the organ, and it was very peaceful. Then down to the waterfront and stopped off in a cafe for what I think is the most expensive coffee we’ve ever had, about $7.
Walked back to the car and then headed out to the Blue Lagoon again, stopping on the way to visit a Viking village but it was just a hotel so carried on to the Blue Lagoon. It was Song’s idea to go twice and what a great idea it was. We spent another 2.5 hours there just floating in the hot water, standing under a waterfall that was like having a massage, and visiting the not too hot sauna, the hotter steam room and the ‘holy crap I can hardly breath this is hot’ steam room.
I’ve put on a bit of weight because of all the eating out, but I didn’t realise how much until I went back to the Blue Lagoon. A whale watching bus stopped and people took photos, and some people from Greenpeace tried to drag me back into the water.
The steam and saunas did me the world of good, I felt a lot better.
Drove straight to the restaurant, the French one, where I had baked salmon with spinach and asparagus and Song had mussels, continuing her unbroken run of eating seafood. I didn’t have alcohol because I had a thought – the drink driving laws might be different here. Turns out I was right, you can’t have any alcohol and drive.
Went back to the hotel and packed up, we have an early flight and have to get up at 0330. We’re flying to Manchester, staying overnight then onto Dublin.
