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| Bill reviewing charts |
We arrived at the airport at 6:30 AM and after a quick trip through customs were taken to the Grand Hotel Reykjavik.
Viking Maritime Museum
In the afternoon, we visited the Vikin Maritime Museum. We toured a retired coast guard ship and then the other exhibits which included an exhibit on women fishermen. Other exhibits were about fishing camps and farms as well as how they dried the fish for export.
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| Coast Guard ship Odinn |
Saga Museum
Next we visited the Saga Museum. Iceland has a long literary history beginning in the 12th century. Since the Icelandic language has not changed since then people can still read these old documents. Saga means story. The sagas include histories, cultural descriptions, romances, legends, lives of the people, and family stories. The stories were about events 200-300 years before they were written they were passed down by word of mouth. The Saga Museum includes a guided tour through history with wax figures placed in dark scenes. The Vikings settled Iceland between 871-4.
Fiskfelagid
We ate dinner at Fiskfelagid (Fish Company) where Diane had sushi and Sashimi and Bill had an inventive avocado starter and a cod dinner. We liked it so much we came back the final night in Iceland. It was here that we learned how expensive things are in Iceland.
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