Day 1 - Manchester to Reykjavik

Sunrise North of Manchester this morning.  Flying at a height of 11 kilometers on the way to Iceland and the best view was as the sun broke through the clouds shortly after levelling out.  Take off, flight and landing were all pretty smooth and we landed 15 minutes earlier then scheduled.  Our car was upgraded from a Suzuki Jimny to a Grand Vitara with studded tyres. Cool.

We drove to Reykjavik and saw some great views on the journey.  At Reykjavik we parked near the bay North of the city and walked up into the centre.  We went to a healthy restaurant for a light bite before heading up the hill to the church.  Our first view of Hallgrimskirkja Church with the sun behind and Leif Erikson to the front.  Quite an impressive piece of architecture and the inside was very minimalistic with a very shiny pipe organ.

Here's a closer view of Leif Erikson in the sunlight.

After we looked around inside the church we bought tickets for the lift up the church tower to see the view over the city.  As the lift doors opened we bumped into a young couple who appeared to have just got engaged at top of the tower (awwwww).  We got to look out of the windows which are just above the clock faces and this is one of the views over the city and across the bay to the mountains.

Here's a shot looking down from the tower at Leif Erikson.

This is a closer look at the view across the bay from the church tower.  It's amazing.

We walked back down from the church to have a closer look across the bay and we spotted this sculpture by the water. Here's Ginny...

... and Colin.

The sky was changing continually and as we walked along the path the view and the reflections were amazing.

Further along was another sculpture with an incredible backdrop of the water mountains, cloud and sky.

After  Rejkyavik we went to the supermarket for supplies and then headed for the apartment at Laugarvatn.  There was some parts of the journey where we had snow and ice on the road so it was a bit scary. The apartment is great and Ginny made a lovely salmon and pasta meal for our supper.  Tomorrow we aren't going to go far, probably just to Geysir, Gulfoss and here abouts.  We've bought tickets for the local spa baths so we'll probably spend sometime there too.