Friday was a beautiful day. We took a drive north past Reykjavik and up into Snæffellsnes to see among other things Snæfellsjökull. That is the volcano used by Jules Vern in his book Journey to the Center of the Earth and has a large glacier on top. The whole peninsula is a set of mountains and fjörds. We entered by driving on the south side of the mountains next to the sea. Here was a wind like none we have felt since we have been here (nor did Charles and I in January). It was fierce and unrelenting. During the drive I was actually able to use the wind to help slow the car while going down a mountain road. I have no idea how fast the wind was but it would have carried anyone away in baggy clothes. Once we reached the western side we were out of the wind. The northern side of the peninsula was even quieter.

We saw plenty of snow on the ground and in fact it was snowing in the town of Borgarnes which is funny because that is the way Charles and I left the town back in January. Yesterday it did not snow before Borgnares and it did not snow after Borgarnes but only as you enter and stay. Does it ever stop snowing there?

It is amazing how cold it gets here once you begin to go up a little in altitude. The roads on the coast were above freezing (about 3 degrees C). When we took a road on a mountain pass (one that does not go that high) we began to see ice everywhere and a large frozen lake. And when we began going down the other side we saw waterfalls a plenty where the snow was melting off the sides of the mountains.

We returned back to Reykjavik for supper and then back to Keflavik for bed.