finding veggie food… and fish in Reykjavik

When we were in Iceland in February – we stayed in Reykjavik the whole time. We had great choice of places to eat – there was a decent amount of good vege food – the restuarant Joi and Sonja recommended – Hornith, was fabulous - so we ate there twice.

We hunted round for fresh fish – and all we could find was lobster or saltfish. We expected loads of good fish – haddock, plaice, sea salmon etc. as Reykjavik is on the coast and has a huge harbour.

This time we are staying near the South Coast near Thorlakshofn, and apparently the best seafood restaurant is nearby. It specialises in lobster which we don’t like and anyway is fearsomely expensive! As for vegetarian food – that may be more of a challenge.

To save money and to make sure we will get food Pen can eat (Pen eats no mammal meat or derivatives) we plan to shop in Hveragerthi as it is a town not far from where we are staying – we will buy plenty of lunch food and snacks. We’ll let you know what food is available in the evenings eating out. We could eat in the hotel we believe. 

sorted!

Tone got us both new passports today – phew!!!

I have paid for us to have GPS in our hire car.

Tone found out that Thorsmork is only accessible by crossing a few very fast-flowing deep rivers – only for experienced drivers of high chassis large tyre 4×4s. So that is not us then.

We will probably book a trip when we get there – last resort will be the bus from Hella that’s £35 each that goes at 10am and returns at 3.30pm. Ideally we hope to find a trip that lasts a full day for not much more money. The Discover the World trip is about £70 each from Reykjavik, and lasts 10 hours. We’d like a compromise between the 2 options.

Joi has posted some amazing pictures recently - we just want to see it all for ourselves now – this time next week we will be in the air preparing for landing – all being well…….

we’re going back again….

to Iceland – next week!

We're booked, but have discovered that our passports expire in August and that means they are not valid for Iceland – they need to have at least 2 months on them…. so Tone is off to Liverpool tomorrow to the passport office to get them renewed – fingers crossed.

We are staying near Thorlakshofn in the South West in a small hotel this time – just for 4 nights – we got a special deal on the new flight from Manchester, bed and breakfast and a hire car, plus entry to the Blue Lagoon.

We would really like to get to Thorsmork, but can't unless we go in a 4×4 vehicle. We could get a local bus but that is £35 each and goes at 10am returning at 3.30pm – a very short day especially considering it will be 24 hour daylight! We might therefore upgrade our hire car to a 4×4 – it will probably be cheaper - but that seems such a bad idea environmentally – and we thought Iceland was really hot on "green" issues – the high cost of public transport for tourist trips like this seems to contradict their other policies.

We are going to try to meet up with Joi and Sonya again if we can. We'll let you know how we get on with these plans in a day or 2.