Well here we are again; we loved it so much last October that we just had to return, and we did.
Unfortunately neither of us managed to get any sleep which wasn't great considering that our flight was on early one - 6am, so we left home at 2am and headed over to Manchester, and after spending 20 minutes going around in circles looking for the car-park we were parked up in Jetparks 3. And to cut a long story short we turned our watches back an hour and touched down at Keflavik Airport at around 8am. Ok, quite a few things happened in-between but you get the idea. Now last time we waited around for around an hour before Sixt came to pick us up to take us for our rental car, so this time I made the 10 minute walk to their office, and by 9am we were on the road.
What I haven't yet mentioned is the fact that it was snowing on South-West Iceland, so for the first hour or so we were driving in the snow; a little slippery underfoot but with our 4x4 Opel Mokka we could take on the world. We had planned a 'shopping stop' at Bonus in Mosfellsbaer, but what we hadn't realised was that they don't open until 11am, so back on the road heading north for us.
After 'going underground' for 6km as we tunneled beneath the Hvalfjordur stretch of water, we took the road east of the Akranes Peninsula and headed up to Borgarnes where by now the supermarkets were open so we stocked up the car as large grocery outlets are scarce where we're going and the last thing we wanted was to be short of food! The small town was also a great halfway point where we dined at the lovely Kaffi Kyrrd, then spent an hour or so looking around the beautiful town with the snow capped mountains guarding over it to the east.
There was still around another 2hrs driving to do, so time to set on our way. On route to the Snaefellsnes Peninsula we had one more planned stop-off, and that was at the Gerduberg Cliffs which are a ridge of basalt columns perched along a prominence below the narrow mountain range that splits the peninsula horizontally. When I say 'one more stop off', I didn't mention all the 'WOW' stop off's as we drove North-West. If we had a Krona for every time we pulled over to take photos we would be able to buy half of Reykjavik!
The last section of the journey took us over the mountains past the famous Snaefellsjokull mountain, well, not just your everyday mountain but a dormant volcano topped with a small glacier swathing it's peaks and flanks. And the last part of our long journey took us down the coast to the lovely holiday rental overlooking the sea, and with clear sunny skies is there anywhere better to be?
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