Tim: Same sort of start, this time with confirmation that the whales watching was on. Popped into the National Museum – worth the visit. It all started in Iceland around 800 AD, the rest is history.
Next was whale watching – and having spoken to Evelyn, our guesthouse owner, we knew her thoughts on the matter i.e. the whale watch tour were just extracting our money. This is the first year they’ve run whale watching through the winter. Usually the “season” isn’t until May – so we were unlikely to see anything.
We took the view that regardless, it would be nice to get out on the Icelandic sea, to see the island from a different aspect. So we hopped on the boat with a take away burger (Caro: practicising travellers economising we shared – he had the burger, I had the fries!), and an hour and a half later we were watching a humpback whale mucking around – nothing fancy, just in and out of the water, pretty special all the same. Also saw some white-beaked dolphins and harbour porpoises during our four hour trip – we were very contented with it all.
Got back in time to watch a dreary England lose to a dreary Ireland back at the Gull – this time we knew people from yesterday. Felt like locals!
Dinner at the Seabaron, famous for its lobster soup. We had this and some of their kebabs – which include a range of Icelandic sea creature specialties. We highly recommend a meal here. A tip would be that the lobster soup, with generous bread and butter they provide is probably enough.
Back to the guest house by 9pm. Pretty tired, and frankly the price of beer does not mix well with my desire to drink it (4-5 quid a pop).
