Taking time out for another luxurious supermarket lunch we touched base with a local who proudly told us about his travel exploits including rocking up unannounced at his ex girlfriends (now married) place in Australia describing her look of horror as she opened the door.
Isarfjiordur is a fishing town (one of the largest fisheries in Iceland) and according to our new found friend has a fairly mild (mean summer average of 9.7 C) climate. He also told us that it's fish factory used to employ people from all over the world giving him many options for free accommodation when he travelled - hopefully announced !
Leaving Isarfjiord we immediately took an amazing 6 km largely single lane tunnel (with passing bays and even a second tunnel turning point inside) to Tangeryri with lovely lakeside views.
We stopped here to read a road side information plaque that detailed what we thought would be an interesting Viking Story ! The Gisli Saga as it was called, detailed the account of a key Viking who decided to throw a gathering but wanted to uninvite someone be didn't get on well with . He sent two people from his house to ensure that this other dude didn't rock up but they missed him as the other guy had gone off to argue with someone else!
WTF !!!
We both fell about laughing imagining that there was another missing plaque detailing the story as surely you wouldn't have a plaque based on an ancient domestic ! We'll leave it for latter Google investigation !
From here the scenery really improved as we went off road along beautiful fjords with hardly another person in sight !
Rounding a corner we came across the lovely Djindandi Waterfall. We pulled up with the tourist hordes (at least 10 people) and walked towards the top of the tiered Waterfall taking in the magic fjiord views along the way.
Going slightly off course following our return to the road we climbed towards the clouds for wild and remote scenery across this amazing landscape.
Eventually we emerged from the wilderness to the coast at Flokulandur which brought the surprise of white sand beaches although for some reason we saw no one queueing for a swim !
We arrived at our destination in Patreksfjiordur where we immediately headed to the local supermarket to source ingredients for our 5 star evening meal - Tuna salad !
From Patreksfjiordur it's now all roads south as we head towards Reykjavik and our flight out to London on Thursday
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