Iceland 3

The next night we stayed in a fairly large town at a hostel that was pretty busy. We went out to a local pub in town to enjoy some Icelandic draft and had a nice time reflecting at our half-way point of the trip. After this I had some laughs calling some friends back home, and later on ended up in the hostel kitchen eating french fries with some guys from Czech Republic. They were hitch-hikers, so the next morning we gave them a ride.

We passed through a town that had signs for a hot bath, so we checked it out. While we waited for the place to re-open for the afternoon, we walked around near the ocean and I found some fun looking rocks that I climbed. The hot bath had a really nice view over the ocean, and it was only $4 to enter which was a bonus! Later on we ended up at a place that's famous in Iceland for being home to several brothers that look like Santa Claus...pretty random, but it offered us some nice nature walks that we took advantage of, despite the rain that was falling at this point.

Carrying on, we stopped at a place that had mud boiling up out of the ground...yet another natural wonder of Iceland! Driving along a bit more, we found some caves. There was water inside the caves that was just a bit too warm to swim in...I was tempted to jump in but Hussain convinced me it was not a good idea.

Later we found a volcano creator that looked fun to climb. We weren't sure how long it would take, but figured we could use a little exercise, so we went for it! It was a decent hike and really didn't take too long to get to the top. That night we stayed in a hostel/B&B which ended up being my favourite accommodation in Iceland. It was a classic old house that had several living rooms we could hang out in and a beautiful upper deck that looked out over the water. There were also some old National Geographic magazines, including one from the month & year I was born, which I found very entertaining to read! It felt like a great deal to have access to all of this for $30/night each. The place was owned by a former geologist from Belgium whose fascination with rocks brought her to Iceland several years ago.

At this point we were supposed to be returning the car to Iceland the next evening, but we were having such a great time that we decided to extend our adventure by 1 more day.