Now with added rain

Reykjavík

We woke up extra early as we were still adjusting to the time difference of 3 hours with Finland. The forecast wasn’t good with rain predicted for the next two days. We drove into town and figured out how to pay for parking, which has been a challenge at times with so many different places using different apps and systems. 

We then battled the ferocious wind to join the city walking tour. Reykjavík is only small but has a really interesting history of how people came to live on Iceland. We learnt that they have an app that can trace the ancestry of an Icelander all the way back to the first settler, it comes in handy to check how closely related two people are before they agree to date .... and people think Tasmania has a problem! We were also told that Iceland is the third windiest place on earth, though the other two aren’t inhabited.

The showers had turned into rain by the time the walking tour ended so we spent the afternoon at Perlan, an interesting dome shaped, nature exploratorium which was very popular, as expected given the weather.