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We’ve taken some time to relax the last few days in Hafnarfjörður, a town about 20 minutes outside of Reykjavik. We spent some time shopping in Kringlan, the largest mall in Reykjavik. It turns out that designation is a bit of a technicality, since Kringlan is 7 minutes away from the larger Smáralind, which is the largest mall …
As we started to head out of the Snæfellsnes peninsula, we saw a sign for an attraction, and a fair number of cars parked. It didn’t look like much from the road:
Today we headed into a glacier, with the aptly named Into the Glacier. This attraction just opened up a year ago, in June of 2015. As far as I can tell, a bunch of smart and motivated people decided to drill / mine a tunnel into a glacier, and then take tourists there. But because the ice …
Lots of travel these days as we make our way out of the Westfjords and down toward Reykjavik. We stayed close to Eiríksstaðir, a museum housed on the site of the longhouse home of Erik the Red and Leif the lucky. And so we had some time to visit there.
After a relaxing morning, we headed to take a factory tour of Saltverk. Founded 5 years ago, Saltverk has revived a 17th century process to extract salt from the ocean using geothermal energy. This process results in a “flaky” salt. When we got there, we weren’t sure we’d really found it:
We spent the day in Ísafjörður, the largest town in the Westfjords (population: 2,600). It’s a nice little town, with a lot of shops, bakeries, and cafes:
