A cold in the cold...

A week is gone, and already I am feeling quite tired out! The cold I managed to get on Friday might not have helped and that currently my head feels like its locked in vice…

Saturday we (WISP) went on to the tour to see the glacial lagoon, which is in Jokulsarlon, (south-east of Iceland). Beautiful Icelandic scenery, lava-covered plains covered by a slight growth of moss, huge volcanoes! Quite a sight to see, as the landscape is so vast! We even passed Eyjafjallajokull, though one could not see very much as it was very cloudy! Apparently 1 or 2 weeks ago, one still had to wear masks to go through that area! Even on the bus!

For lunch we stopped in this ‘modern’ hotel in the middle of nowhere, which basically looked like a big, white container! There were only 2 meal options, either meat-soup or fish-soup (The Icelanders are very fond of their meat, while vegetarians are slightly frowned upon). One soup costs 1590 icelandic krone, which basically is around 12 euros! We had sandwiches and crips with us, so we did not try the soups, but I am not quite sure how good a soup can be that it is worth 12 euros?!

We stopped several times to look at absolutely magnificent waterfalls (one has a little path behind it, which we of course investigated). Finally after about 6h on the bus, we arrived at the lagoon, but were rewarded with this absolutely beautiful natural lake, which was filled with little icebergs. We even saw 2 seals swimming around! After about a 30 min. boat tour, slaloming our way past the icebergs and eating 1500-year old ice, it was back on the bus and pretty much straight back to Reykjavik (we stopped at another coffee place for supper and I even managed to afford some fries this time). So after a 14h tour, I can say that I have seen quite a bit of Iceland, but I paid quite a bit with my health…having a cold in 10 degrees Iceland with pharmacies not having any tablets against sinus pressure is not the best experience!

Yesterday, me and Mirjam went to the blue lagoon to relax, use all the free face masks that are found in the different areas of the lagoon and maybe even cure our colds (it didn’t work). It apparently does not even smell too bad once you are sitting in the lagoon (both of us were blessed with no smell at all), but once again there was a price to pay: my hair has gone totally weird with all the sulphur and no amount of conditioner seems to be helping! But it is a price I am willing to pay..over and over again!

After the blue lagoon, Fredrik picked me up, as I have now started land-based, so that means getting up at 5 in the morning shift, to be at the lighthouse at 6am! The second shift is between 1 and 6pm, which does not seem too bad, but that means you really miss the whole day! But maybe its worth it for that lovely lie-in? lets wait and see…

Cheers until I finally can breath and think straight again!