Today we moved north on the East coast doing most of the day along the coast.
It was another marvelous riding day and more adventurous as we are now going to places less travelled. We saw much less traffic and only one bus with tourists. Here we are encountering people that usually spend more than one week to do the whole trip around the island. We continue to see many different nationalities but the vast majority used to be American. As we traveling more north we are seeing larger percentage of Europeans and today we met Germans, Italians, French, Spanish and Czech Republic. Interesting at breakfast there were two young men at the same guesthouse we were staying and one of them came from Dallas, Texas USA quite close where we have our house. Small world ...
After breakfast we took some more pics of our cabin at the foot of the mountain with a waterfall cascading down. Glorious.
We then got on the bike and made our way and the views were just astounding. We kept stopping and realized that at this pace it would take us days to make the 300kms or so we had to do.
As we came around a corner we saw this amazing spot where you had a beautiful tall mountain on the left, a winding road in the middle and the tranquil ocean on the right. We stopped and took what are probably some of the most gorgeous pictures we have taken. But unfortunately we cannot really capture the full beauty as the weather was perfect, the sun basking on our clothes and the noise of the birds (lots of them) made it an amazing experience. We stayed and enjoyed our time together for a while.
And it was good we did because as we turned the next corner (and Iceland is amazing in this way, always a new experience around the corner), we encountered fog which stayed with us for the next hours. There was also a strong wind coming from the glaciers rushing towards the sea which made riding a bit tricky. We slowed and hankered down and prodded on. We now know why Icelanders believe in elves. In the foggy distance we were expecting them to appear at any moment and ask us about our GSA.
Thank goodness we were attentive to the elves because in doing so we did not miss the sheep.
Although we did not see any elves, there were plenty of sheep, that roamed the road as if it belonged to them. Thank goodness, our exhaust was loud enough that as we approached they ran like they had seen or heard the abominable snow man.
We stopped at Djúpivogur for lunch. We had heard the Hotel Framtid served good food.
We arrived quite late so they only had coffee menu but we managed to find something we liked. The restaurant was very nicely decorated as well.
When we left the restaurant the fog was still strong and we decided to take a quick look around town and saw the harbor, a stone museum and Eggin i Glidivik (the eggs) at Merry Bay.
We then made our way towards Egilsstadir. There were 3 ways to get there: the mountain road, a bit of sea road and then a mountain road or most sea road.
We decided on the middle option as the mountain road has a hill of 17% and we were worried with having so much weight on the bike.
As it turned out, the road we did up the mountain was quite adventurous as it was sinuous and not asphalted.
We are now much deeper in the country and there are much less people. We can travel for long without meeting another car. It feels we have Iceland all for ourselves ;-).
We arrived at 8:30 at our Guesthouse in Egilsstadir and decided to have dinner at the local restaurant.
The warm room felt great and the quality of the guesthouse is quite high. And so is the price like everything else in Iceland.
For dinner, Paula enjoyed the char and I had the duck. Both were very nice and so was the dessert.
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