Since this was an unexpected day in Reykjavik, we had no plans for the day. The ship did offer some last minute shore excursions, but we didn't sign up. The weather looked pretty bad for the off-road jeep trip, which was the only one that appealed to us at all. The other two trips offered were repeats of what we did yesterday—a trip to the Blue Lagoon and sightseeing in the city. We did take the opportunity to catch up on home and work email while we were ...

We arrived early in Reykjavik, and we docked at the pier before we woke up. Our excursion today was meeting to leave at 10:45 a.m. so there was no reason to neither hurry nor get up early. Breakfast to the room again: croissants, rolls, muffins, juice, coffee and tea. Not an exciting start to the day, but tasty and easy. It is nice to have it preordered the night before for delivery to the room. Reykjavik proper has a population of 115,000. The entire country h...

Philip and I did not have a shore excursion planned for today. We originally planned one, but it was full by the time we tried to book it. We decided to spend the day just visiting the town of Isafjördur where we docked. Turned out to be a good plan as the town was charming. We visited the maritime history museum first. Although we had not changed any money for Icelandic krónur, we had no trouble using Euros everywhere we went including admission at t...

Last night during our passage from Lerwick to Akureyri, the ship crossed the Arctic Circle. This is the first time that we have been that far north so I stayed up watching the ship's position on the TV screen. We passed the latitude of 66° 33′ 44″ north by just a bit. It was still light outside last night even though it is a month passed the summer solstice. We took a full day excursion today including stops at Godafoss (the Waterfall of the Go...