Iceland!

Raaaahr (I'll hopefully remember what that means in 30 years)

I arrived in Iceland with little to no drama. I made sure I picked up some duty free booze which we will cover later. There was a dude at the airport with a sign for me and we proceeded to my guesthouse. I was a little bit tired so being in Iceland was a little bit surreal for some reason. The landscape all looked really barren and fairly different.

Things didn't really change once I got to the house, just outside was this church:

It was just the most interesting architecture I have seen in a church before. Really jagged looking and imposing, even if it wasn't as big as most of the churches I have seen.

I found my room which was a cool little single room with a desk and a basin in it. I then headed into town quickly to hunt some food and go to the supermarket. I had heard there was an amazing hot dog stand here (I read a quote saying "Icelands best restaurant is a hot dog stand") so I found that and ate amazing hot dogs. They were so good I got two of them! I was also super stoked to find that this tiny little stand had credit card facilities. I had heard that Iceland was a "cashless society" and this was the first evidence of it, I don't know why that made me so happy but it did. I then wandered back home and called in to a supermarket on the way home for some viddles. I found some muesli bars, ginger ale (for the rum of course) and some crazy doughnut looking things.

So this is what I am gonna go crazy with in my wee room by myself over the next few days:

Shit yeah. The Viking is a pretty standard lager but it was OK. The Black Death is a pretty dark beer and is really tasty. I might be biased by the guitars, skull-with-a-top-hat and the slogan "Drink in Peace" though. Both beers are brewed in Iceland.

In the evening we went out to go hunting for some northern lights. It felt a bit weird chasing lights in the sky. Kinda like tornado hunting I would imagine, but a little less dangerous. The electro-magnetic activity was pretty strong but unfortunately there was some cloud around the horizon obscuring them. Long-exposure photos really make them look cool but I didn't have a tripod so I couldn't take very good ones. I took one just to prove I had taken a photo of them on my camera but I won't post it here cos it looks a bit shit. I got the email address of an English woman that had just done a photography course in Iceland and had a tripod so I will get some photos off her and post them in a separate post sometime in the future.

I got dropped back at the Guesthouse about 12:30am and went to bed to get a bit of sleep before my tour the next day.