Suppose I should update the blog for the last three days... Tuesday It was grey and rainy and horrible and I'd driven a previously unimaginable distance the day before. I had a lazy day which consisted of eating, a trip into Akureyri town centre to see what I missed on Sunday (not much) and lust after some orange Cintamani mittens. By the way, I love that my tablet offers the word slurp before it realises I'm trying to write Akureyri. In the evening I went to t...

On Monday I went to see if the Edda breakfast is worth having. It is. Not only do they have orange juice and little bread rolls, they also have miniature croissants. I'm not a huge fan of croissants but if there are mini ones on offer, then I'll go for it. And mini chocolate muffins and biscuits. I did not get caught out by cardboardy cereal again. I went to see the wonders of the north. They don't really have a tourism tag for them yet because there is next to ...

When we left the story on Saturday night, I was still feeling a bit dizzy but ok when upright and enjoying walking around the headland at Borgarnes, seeing fluffy ducklings and a redshank. On Sunday it was time to move on. After a breakfast of cardboardy cereal, warm apple juice but perfect orange juice and lovely hot buttered toast fresh from two trips through the very exciting conveyor toaster, I smuggled the tent out to the car, did another quick walk around ...

Since I was feeling a little better - a little better than I did at 7am, anyway - i was persuaded to go out for a nice little walk in the fresh air. I had made the delightful discovery that the socket I had my tablet & camera plugged into was actually pulling power out of them. My tablet was visibly losing power while being used despite being plugged in and the camera, which I was just keeping topped up was so dead it wouldn't even switch on, after having be...

Today has been a total waste of a day. It began badly on last night. My neighbours had no intention of shutting up and going to bed until about 2.30, the rain bucketed down and what had been a patch of mud when I arrived on Wednesday became a huge puddle, almost a flood. It kept everyone else off the main part of the field but it also kept me checking it every ten minutes for fear I'd have to suddenly move the tent or even abandon it. By about 6.30, the kids wer...