It's our final night in the amazing and beautiful Nordurland. The latest dream is a house on the edge of Eyjafjörður, overlooking the breaching whales. We drove a bloody long way today - I think I miscalculated the distance when I booked our stops. We're in a very sleepy town, way up 'on the edge of the Arctic' - Kópasker. We've only seen one other person - the woman who let us in our apartment. She sniffed non-stop and as she showed us around she was putting things back in neat piles / straight lines. After a spag bol we went out for a stroll. And the same bloody woman drove past slowly...smiling. All doors and windows will be locked tonight. Anyway - today. A bit of history (you may want to close the page now) and yet another couple of waterfalls... Laufás Another turf house which belongs to Iceland's National Museum. It used to be a manor house and a wealthy vicarage. Around 20-30 people lived in the house - including domestics. This time Stu decided we were going in - sod the entry fee. All the separate buildings are joined by corridors (dark tunnels) - some of the house is underground. A bit dark and creepy. Dettifoss and Hafragilsfoss Dettifoss falls 45 m and is 100 m wide. It's apparently the most powerful waterfall in Europe. But if you Google it...there's one somewhere else in Europe that claims the same! The Hafragilsfoss waterfall cascades 27 m into a deep canyon. That's enough culture for one day! We saw a top temperature of 18C today - I was the only person wearing a woolly hat.
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