Day 10 - 11.8. Goodbye Iceland

We woke up later than usual there was no rush, rain behind the windows wasn’t really tempting. We took hotel breakfast and picked up few points to visit during our last day: a famous church, the biggest local shopping mall, a Museum of Saga and a Marine museum. First stop was the Marine museum close to a harbor. It was andinteresting exhibition describing fishery and marine life in Iceland from the past till now.

Marine museum

The rain was so mentally devastating that we decided to change topic and headed to the biggest Icelandic shopping mall Kringlan. Of course no big surprise everything was so expensive that it was impossible to find anything for a reasonable price. At the end I bought only some tourist staff there (including a puffin) and some shopping also happened in ZO-ON shop – Icelandic outdoor wear. Being hungry we decided to go back to center and checked a monumental church Hallgrimskirkja which you can find almost on every postcard from Reykjavik.

Hallgrimskirkja

We just met a wedding there so instead of waiting outside we took lunch in close Loki restaurant. Local menu was a little bit wild consisting of mostly local specialties. Most of the food was ok and eatable but the fermented shark was something hard to swallow. From the center we moved through the rain to Perlan - geothermal place on the hill above the city.

Perlan building

There is an interesting building here where you can find the most expensive restaurant and also Saga museum – our destination. Here we got mp3 players and earphones and took audio tour through the wax figurines.

Nice wax lady

After 30 minutes of listening we were totally destroyed and tired. Outside there was still raining it was too late for cinema, gay pride was still in the center, so last choice was small shop called Volcano house – café, shop and mainly mini cinema showing two short movies about Heimaey island and its Eldfell eruption and new one about Eyjafjallajokull eruption in 2010. After cinema time we took last dinner in Reykjavik at a restaurant with simple name Steakhouse. Food was good and we were sad we found this restaurant so late.

Vine menu powered by Kindle at Steahouse

After steaks and vine we took drive back to Keflavik airport. Car handover was smooth, I would even say that nobody really checked the car properly (good for us). At the airport we had plenty of time thanks to flight delay.

Keflavik airport

Ivo invited the whole crew to a small champagne closing party and around 1 a.m.local time we left Iceland heading back to Berlin. The whole trip was ok, mainly thanks to Jirka who was still able to drive at 6 a.m. back to Prague from Berlin. That’s it, end of story, only one thing I can add that Iceland was worth visiting and we will definitely come back again.

Last toast at Keflavik

Driving 60km, road 41