Monday 29th May

Day 3

Skóga Museum

The morning greeted us with heavy rain, but we pressed on nonetheless! Breakfast was a generous buffet, and the worst thing was that the hot water was only available from the coffee machine which took 3 minutes to make a coffee. So this formed a long queue, mostly comprised of the tour groups!

Onward we went, firstly visiting Skóga Museum (of transport and communications) and a small living history sort of museum with traditional houses and an extra eclectic museum which had artefacts, paintings and even a couple of boats inside.  It was still raining heavily, so we had lunch which was minestrone soup followed by the softest cheesecake ever!

Skógafoss

Fully waterproofed, we headed on over to Skógafoss which was enormous and impressive! Fun to stand at the bottom of, definitely, but I would advise against walking up the steps to see it from the top – there’s not much to see there. Back down and in the car, my waterproofs had become saturated, leaving me with wet feet a wet patches on my trousers.  I dried off in the car and put new socks and shoes on, but the waterproof trousers were soaked.

We made our way to Seljalandsfoss, another waterfall, stopping off at the visitors centre about Eijafjallajókull, which was a small shop and a film about a family and farm in the hills next to the volcano and their story of survival during and after the eruption in 2010.

Seljalandsfoss

Onward to Seljalandsfoss, I only took photos because my wet waterproofs plus the cold wind made it feel super freezing, and I didn't want to saturate myself all over again, unlike Mathew – so I went back to the car whilst he walked behind the waterfall! I would have joined him if I wasn't so freezing cold!

The rain began to ease off  just a little as we arrived at our hotel. At first we weren’t sure where the hotel was because we only saw the restaurant with the same name. It turned out the hotel was right behind the restaurant, but there was no sign for it – I think that it had only been recently constructed, however, the room was nice, clean and warm, so we were able to dry off easily. We had dinner in the restaurant which was a bit like an American diner, and the food was basic but very nice and filling.