Today we picked up our rental car, an AWD Ford Kuga, and traveled from Reykjavik to Hellnar on the Snaefellsjokull peninsula. The drive was a little over two hours including stops at a roadside café for lunch and at Yri-Tunga for seal view. Lunch was vegetable soup with bread, fairly simple but tasty. Unfortunately, the stop at Yri-Tunga did not yield any seal sighting, however there was lots of wind, beach, and crashing waves. I was sad there were no seals but we have a second chance for seals later in the trip if we stop at the seal center. After that we continued to, we’ll be nice and call it a town, Hellnar. The Hellnar hotel is located on a nature preserve and is fairly tiny. We are in a very tiny room (10 x 14 foot) which is part of four room cabin. We will need to squeegee the floor after we take a shower, classy. The photo on the left is our room, taken at 16mm. There is a door on the bathroom it is just behind my husband wh...
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