Day 11 Sunday May 21st 2023 Fridtjof Nansen to Reykjavik

Today we had to leave the place we called home for 9 days.  We had to be out of our cabin by 0730 and so we rose early and completed the packing to get out of the room on time and then went for our last on-board breakfast.  We ate and then had to wait until 1000 for a taxi to pick us up to take us to our hotel.  Unfortunately because of the bad weather the boat had docked at a more sheltered quay which probably upset the cab and he didn't appear.  We joined a shuttle bus to the other quay but that only took us so far.  We could not find any taxi but eventually found a group in the same predicament but who had just found a taxi. We asked that driver to find us a taxi and that duly arrived and all turned out well.

the pool

We booked into the hotel and 

looking out to sea

prepared for our next activity.  We wanted to do something different, something relaxing and typically Icelandic.  We had booked to go to a geothermal, coastal swimming pool.  It was still raining at this time but we went for it and thoroughly enjoyed the experience.  We had been in geothermal pools in New Zealand

but this seemed better for temperature control and was just the right depth with some benches carved from rock in suitable places.  After being in the pool for about an hour we thought we had long enough, we then changed and went to the cafe for some food.

We later took a taxi back to the hotel and relaxed for the some of the afternoon before finding a supermarket to buy supplies for tomorrow.  A day which we did something a lot of Icelanders do regularly.