Saturday, September 7

 We packed up and headed south to highway #1-- the Ring Road that circles around Iceland.  We stopped off in Selfoss to run some errands--pharmacy, Post Office, liquor store and lunch.  They didn't have any kleina so we had to have scones for dessert.

The countryside along Highway 1 from Selfoss to Vic is beautiful. It runs past Eyjafjallajokull which is a volcano covered by a glacier. Eyja... was the volcano that erupted when we were in Scotland two years ago.  It is part of a beautiful mountain range that's covered in bright green moss and lots of fat sheep that appear to be lost.

Correction, it was Grimsvotn that erupted in 2011.  I'm getting my volcanoes mixed up.

In September horses and sheep are brought down from the mountains where they have grazed wild over the summer.  Their word for roundup is "rettir."  We had to stop for sheep in the road today but don't know if it was a full fledged rettir.

We went to a folk museum in Skogar and saw the waterfall there and then went on to our cabin near Vik.  The cabin is located on a big farm-- lots of livestock -- sheep, cows, and horses.  

We drove in to Vik for supper at the Suthur-Vik restaurant.  I had char, J had a steak sandwich and G ordered lamb.  But he got a chicken tortilla.  Must have been a language problem.

Back to the cabin for some red wine and bed.

Here's a picture of the folk Museum