Saturday, 21 July: today we're hooking up with our friends from the UK. First stop: their hotel, overlooking the town. | |
UsaKousa enjoying the view from Dan's hotel room. After a while they decide they want to go onto the turfed roof outside...
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We then drive to the village of Vestmanna (Westman, ie. settlers from the British Isles before the Viking invasion) for a 2-hour boat trip to visit bird cliffs. | |
A little village abandoned in the 60's (as there are no roads connecting it to anywhere else), but the former residents have kept their properties as summer houses. |
More low clouds (sorry!) |
Mountains here have very interesting shapes - some very angular, others very round and soft - you see similar shapes in Iceland, but the colours are different. |
And some very angular rocks too. |
There are many sheep grazing on the very steep cliffs. |
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You see caves like these all along the coast. They even have concerts in some of them - the accoustics are supposed to be amazing. |
I hope you can spot the out-of-focus puffins in the water - I couldn't zoom any futher in, and it was impossible to focus from a rocky boat. |
Soon we are out of the fjord and in the Atlantic Ocean, where it's very windy and the waves pretty rough. |
A green elephant. |
Looking back from inside a cave. |
That's where we've just been. |
We all have to wear helmets before going into caves. We laugh at the passengers on the other boat looking like a bunch of kids on a school trip, but I'm sure that's how we look too ;-)
(We are on a smaller boat, thanks to the expert advice from Stan that we can get right into the caves and closer to the cliffs.) |
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Dan snoozing on the sail back to the harbour... |
...and his revenge when Stan dozes off. |
When we get back ashore, we are all dying for a pee and a hot drink! UsaKousa keep Vivienne's Irish coffee warm while she's out for a fag. Andrea and Anne are having non-alcoholic drinks, while I of course have to try the "Greenland coffee": with Grand Marnier and Whisky - *yum* |
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