August 28, 2010

Vestmannayjar

Today was our saturday and we decided to go for the all day to the Vestmannayjar. It is an island on the south of Iceland. Nothing interesting? It is famous because half of it was destroyed by volcano eruption in 1973. We were very unlucky with weather: for the first time it was rain, quite cold and fog. To go there we had to take bus and ferry, and we have to say thank you to the manager of  our clinic who made our trip much more cheaper, because he called to his friend (who is manager of the bus company) and asked him to make discount for us (i told you that people in iceland are very nice!). When we get to this island we decided to climb the volcano, but because of fog we missed the rout and just climbed it with the help of fence on slope (i have no idea why there was a fence). It was really hard, and we were tired like we worked all day. But the funniest thing was when we met people on the top who looked at us like we were crazy. After talking to them we understood that we climbed the steep slope =) We spent around hour on the top. It was really amazing, we discovered that ground there was hot, and some holes in stones were like sauna) Oh, bacsuse of this damn fog we saw nothing but fog all around us instead of amazing view on the island. But anyway we really enjoyed our trip and were happy that we climbed the volcano)