We decided that today would be a quiet one so we slept a bit late, luxuriated in the hot tub and, all in good time, prepared to drive into Akureyri for brunch, a stroll around town with intermittent shopping for gifts for ourselves :-) and, of course, others.
This will be a relatively short post because of the nature of the day and the fact that I have very few images to show. But, as I may have said before, don't forget to click on any images that are here if you would like to see a larger version.
I’m sorry to say that I have essentially no photos of the town of Akureyri. Not exactly sure how that happened as we were so impressed with this town and its Nordic tidy newness, interesting streets and shops, excellent restaurants and mostly very friendly people.
Here again, we found communicating very easy since, unlike those of us who speak no Icelandic, virtually all Icelanders with whom we needed or wanted to converse spoke English.
One of the interesting features of this town which soon became apparent while driving is the traffic lights, in particular the red light and what you see in the photo is representative of every traffic light we saw in Akureyri. Welcome to Akureyri!
One other striking feature of travelling in Iceland is the nature of the Icelandic language with its. for us, large number of, and sometimes unrecognizable, letters in place names and street names. I found that, having difficulty spelling and pronouncing the names, it was almost impossible for me to remember them.
In addition to our shopping and strolling around the centre of town, we discovered and, two of us, spent a bit of time in a small but lovely Botanical Garden.
Later in the day just before going for dinner at Noa's seafood restaurant, we were down by the water (Akureyri is situated on the west side at the head of Eyjafjörður fjord which, at 60Km long, is the longest fjord in Iceland) where we spotted several swans, a fairly common sight on even small ponds in Iceland. They were quite far away so a challenge to photograph. Two of them (likely males) were squabbling, a bit of which you might be able to discern in this rather poor quality image.
Now, as you have no doubt recognized,
I am really reaching here, especially for photos, but the only other image I have of Akureyri is a bit of it that lies across the fjord, so here is that photo below. And, actually, I'm not even sure that the location across the fjord is part of the town of Akureyri.
I don’t recall what we did that evening other than drive back to Hamragril with plans for a fairly busy day tomorrow.
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