Iceland itself

We have left Iceland and have arrived in Greece. Iceland itself and the people are fantastic. While driving you only have a few speeds to contend with, 90km on just about any highway, 80 km on the gravel roads and 50 km in cities or towns. But actually no one seems to observe them. Maybe it is because you can literally and physically see forever. Want to pass just look the 3 or 4 klicks ahead and decide if you want to make you move now or later on a curve. They have speed cameras, 3 were what we saw in our ~2500 km trip, but they let you know well in advance where they are and I think they allow a 20 kn/h elbow room judging on how many people actually slowed down when approaching them. We had a VW Golf that was quite exceptional in the power department. I often discovered we were passing the car was moving at 120 km+ with more to power to spare. Pavé set up a fantastic B'day for me (us) at the Blue Lagoon with an in water massage and then dinner at the Lava restaurant next door. I will say this once (I hope) if you have to think about the prices you will either starve, freeze or both. Travelling inexpensively not cheaply is a young persons bailiwick. All of outdoors Iceland is one giant campground with hot pots (thermal pools) everywhere. I think we spent an easy months food budget back home in the 8 days we were there. Suffice to say $50 was not overly expensive to pay for lunch, you can extrapolate what dinner could cost. Oh and we are not talking about fancy meals here either. Everyone we that we had contact with were so helpful, for example on our last night we got so lost trying to find our hotel that when I asked for directions in a gas station a young fellow right away said foole me I will show you the way. Did you know they have an incredible number of golf courses, mostly 9 holes and windy but if you wait the weather usually gets better later on an you could probably play until midnight. I don't know how many waterfalls we saw but they were spectacular. Many times driving we felt we we were in Middle Earth and didn't know if we should expect to see a hobbit disappearing in the grass, a battalion of Orks swarming over a mountain top or Gollum splashing through a creek with freshly caught fish. Will try to insert a few photos now.

O Those were photos from around Reykavik. Our first sojourn was up to Höfn and along the way we stumbled upon the Iceberg Lagoon where 2 James Bond movies were filmed in part, " A View to Kill" & " Die Another Day".