Of course a Down day is usually followed by an Up day where seemingly nothing can go wrong. Never a dull day!
The tourist trip I'd booked on was where you go inside a glacier. I've never seen a glacier let alone go inside one so I decided to spend the zillion Kroner to do it.
Glaciers aren't the easiest beasts to get to. It was a 30minute 4x4 coach journey to Base Camp, then a 20min journey in the ice mobile to get to the tunnel entrance. The ice mobile was a converted Nato missile launcher, so high tech that the air pressure of the tyres can be changed whilst it's moving - controlled by a phone app.
Going inside the glacier was fantastic as was the tour guide, although when you're reminded that there's 50metres of ice and snow on top of you a little unnerving.
I got back to Bertha and had earmarked somewhere to head for the night, I didn't want to rush straight to Reykjavik but certainly didn't want to detour off paved roads with the aforementioned less than ideal spare tyre. Wilson the wheel sat on my passenger seat and kept me company, I stopped 3 times during the 40miles to check the spare and it's pressure.
It was a 2km detour to Borgarnes up a main road, acceptable. The first thing I saw was a supermarket and a huge services. Before I went to find somewhere to sleep for the night I popped to the supermarket - opposite the turning in was a tyre place. It was Sunday so it was closed but it meant Wilson could be fixed tomorrow without having to go straight to Reykjavik which was a huge relief as that was another 50miles on and there were detours I'd ideally like to make.
How could today get any better?! A whole roast chicken reduced to only half a zillion Kroner in the supermarket which improved my planned veggie curry no end, and a campsite on the waters edge with a glowing sunset alongside some friendly campervan neighbours. Definitely an Up day.
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