We were able to sleep in a bit at least, but we still had to be up early enough to finish packing, eat bread and jam for breakfast, and get out of our rooms before our checkout time at 10am. As soon as I had stowed my luggage in their luggage area, I went for a walk. The place I wanted to grab lunch at was closed until 11:30, so I just wandered the shopping street for a bit looking at nicknacks, but didn't get anything. I went to the waffle place again (Il...

Woke up early again still feeling kind of crappy, dressed and sat in the common kitchen to at least be up and awake. I couldn't even bring myself to eat, so I just made a sandwich and packed my yogurt for the trip. The three of us walked to the Harpa centre where we were picking up the rental car. Lexi filled out all the paperwork and we were taken to the garage to pick up our little Hyundai. Because this was sort of a spur-of-the moment thing, we hadn'...

We decided it was time for lunch at that point, so we hopped back in the car and went to the next town.We were lucky enough that this town at least had one restaurant to grab a bit to eat at (and go pee). I ordered one of the specials - fish with a butter sauce. It was really tasty and was light enough that I was fine with doing some more walking afterwards as well. We sat outside with our lunches for some fresh air and a Swiss backpacker shared our table with u...

Today we all went our separate ways. I had booked a full-day tour to the southern parts of Iceland, Erica was leaving for a flight home around noon, and Melanie and Lexi were going to wander around town again. I was up before everyone else, packed a bit of lunch for myself so I didn't have to worry about buying anything while on the trip. Because of the initial room mix-up, the hostel had given me a free breakfast, which I cached in on that morning. I was fe...

The next stop was myrdalsjokull glacier to meet up with the other part of the group we'd dropped off earlier. It was a bit of a hard drive to get in near the glacier. Our bus was obviously built to get to more difficult places, but some of the cars that were trying to drive in on the gravel road ahead of us got stuck, so we had to maneuver around them. We parked in a parking lot, and then our driver lead us on a walk towards the glacier. It was a bit of a w...