Iceland & Day 3
As a last minute reservation, we selected a tiny cabin isolated in the southeast region of Iceland to call home base while we explored for a couple of days. We left Reykjavik with not a clue as to what to expect, but never fear Iceland’s Route 1 is filled with tourist markers. Waterfalls, hot springs, etc are easy to spot in these vast parts of Iceland. They stick out like a filipino in Iceland, heh.
A convenience store in Hella provided semi-satisfying paprika chips and an orange soda called Applesin Limonadi. As if the name wasn’t confusing enough, my taste receptors sent messages to my brain that fragmented into a little something like this, diet club soda with splash of orange drink. Yikes. The weirdness played over and over in my head since I couldn’t put the drink down, until we stumbled upon Seljalandsfoss — a large and beautiful waterfall in which you have the opportunity of walking behind and soaking up all the lovely frigid water.
As the soda and chips began to slowly become unstatisfying, we stopped for a lovely bite in Vik where the population is less than the maximum capacity of your neighborhood library….500 folks. The only place open was a modern restaurant in a seemingly vintage Guesthouse. Matthew and I both went for the traditional lamb soup–a hearty bowl of lamb chunks and typical soup veggies. For his main course he had the Icelandic staple….fish (it was fall apart at the slightest touch of a fork TROUT). I had chicken glazed and backed in a creamy, mushroom sauce….the kind of yummy meal that yields no stopping point.
After dinner we realized it was getting a bit late and decided head straight to the next guesthouse in Horgsland. We checked in with a filipino woman which turns out to be from another small province next to the town where my mother is from. She’s a long way from home, though I must admit she smelled of stinky (I mean that in the most delicious way) fried fish which just took me right back to the Philippines. Rob, though filipino isn’t the slightest bit a fan of the stinky stuff.
The travels continue further East on Day 4!