No formal tours booked today. After a nice sleep-in, we wandered off to breakfast and then decided to walk into the main shopping area of Reykjavik. It was a fairly miserable walk there - cold and rainy - but the rain stopped once we got into the shopping area. Not a lot to say about the shops really, we spent a little money on souvenirs and looked in a few other shops then turned around and came home - again, walking in the rain.
All up we walked about 10 Kilometres - probably about twice as far as we had planned - so when we got back we crashed.
We were due to leave port at around 5pm, and we left on time. The captain announced that it isn't going to be smooth sailing tonight or tomorrow. He is sailing towards Greenland tonight to try to get some shelter from another low pressure system, but even so we're apparently expecting a 5 - 6 metre swell. As soon as I heard that I dosed up on Travacalm again :-)
We had some photos taken by the ship's photographer tonight. I have been a bit surprised at the lack of attempts to take our photo - on Princess and P&O they're always offering to take photos but on this cruise, not so much.
Hmm - as I'm typing (around 6:15pm on Friday) the sea is getting higher and higher - I've just heard the first round of creaking noises. Maybe I'll top off the travacalm with a glass of champagne at dinner - that's an absolute guarantee that I'll go back to the cabin and sleep like a baby until tomorrow!
I'd like to go back to Iceland and spend a bit longer seeing the sights, but unfortunately it's not really on the way to anywhere for an Australian :-)
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