Day 5

Well the Foss Hotel in Husavik has a wired network to every room and a wireless network.  Neither of them work though.  So I am typing this on the public computer in reception with a 10 minute use time limit.

Up early this morning to return the Land Rover, I am very sad, I want one.  Got to Reykjavic domestic airport for 9:50, gave the Land Rover to a man from ISAK and went tinto the 'terminal'.  Well actually it is a large shed with one baggage conveyor, 5 doors, they call gates and an International Departures area, for flights to Greenland.  About 25 people on the flight in a Fokker F50, high wing turno prop.  The gps worked most of the way so I can tell you we were at 7000ft and traveling at 280 miles per hour.   All on time and all uneventful.

Arrived Akureyri and picked up the hire car, a Suzuki Vitara.  Sharon is worried that she won't be able to find it in car parks as it is so small.  If she was at home she would think it was huge, but she has spent 3 days in a Land Rover Superjeep and needed a step ladder to get in and out.

Stopped off at Godfoss on the way up to Husavik, a really nice waterfall.

A word on Icelandic Health and Safety,  I have noticed that they aren't taking this Health and Safety thing very seriously.  At Godfoss there was a piece of rope seperating the public from a 70 foot drop into a white water.  At the airport one of the ground crew was wearing rubber clogs, the other Nike trainers.  At Geysir members of the public were seperated from torrents of super heated water by a small rope.  Many of the roads have hairpin bends with masive drops and no armco.   Surprisingly I have only seen one injured person here, a young lad in the pool at the hotel last night who cut his knee in England before he came away on holiday and had 4 stitches in it.  I like it here it's dangerous and you have to respect it.  I suppose if you spend your life living on a volcano wearing safety boots is a bit pointless.

Husavik is beautiful.  It is a fishing port on a fjord.  From our hotel room we can see the harbour, across the fjord to the mountains, with snow, the otherside.  there is a wood and corrugated iron church and several similarly constructed buildings.   We ate outside, overlooking the harbour in what we thought was a cheap burger cafe.  Then we noticed they charged us 100 IKr for Tomato Ketchup, not so cheap.  Sharon didn't even eat all her ketchup.  75p for ketchup, I've been robbed.

Whale watching tomorrow.  sailing at 12:00 so sea sickness pills for breakfast.