I went to Iceland 16 to 19 January, traveling with former colleagues. This was my second visit to this beautiful country, first time was in August 2010, almost 3 1/2 years prior to this trip. I was happy and excited to go visit again.
We had to travel via Gardermoen (the so called Oslo Airport), to getting there took a bit. When we arrived, we checked into the Grand Hotel Reykjavik, which was to be our “home” for the week end.
We went to a restaurant called Lækjarbrekka, and the food was really nice. If I’m to go back to Reykjavik, I might very well end up going back there – I loved the lentil burger I had there. It’s not always restaurants like that are good at vegetarian food, but these guys knew how to do it!
While the others went out sightseeing on Friday, I decided to go horse rinding. I love horses, and did the same thing last time I visited Iceland, so this was something I had been looking forward to. It was good to see the winter landscape from the horseback!
![IMG_1358](http://reise.avenannenverden.no/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/IMG_1358.jpg)
After a day on the horseback, it was good to go for a walk down to city centre, after I had done some relaxing. Spent a bit of time by myself, before I met up with the others for dinner at Fredik V, a fancy restaurant serving five courses. I wasn’t very impressed by the vegetarian food, though.
Here are some photos from the coast of Reykjavik:
![IMG_0406](http://reise.avenannenverden.no/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/IMG_0406.jpg)
Saturday morning I went to the centre of Reykjavik again. A couple of the others and I walked along the coast, which was a really nice walk. The day before I had just gone down to the coast while in the centre, but this time we walked all the way from the hotel.
![Me by the coast of Reykjavik.](http://reise.avenannenverden.no/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/IMG_0425.jpg)
Me by the coast of Reykjavik.
After walking down the coast, we went our seperate ways, and I had a walk around the centre of the city. I walked up to Hallgrímskirkja, but didn’t go inside. However, it’s a magnificent view, and you can see it from many places in the centre.
![Hallgrímskirkja](http://reise.avenannenverden.no/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/IMG_0434.jpg)
Hallgrímskirkja
There’s few things as good as a nice cup of coffee after wandering around for a while, so I headed for a coffee place I’d been recommended: Kaffitár. I enjoyed sitting there with my (good) coffee and read my book.
In the afternoon we all headed for the Blue Lagoon. I had really been looking forward to go there again, and it was wonderful to spend some hours there. Being there at windter time was absolutely magic! It’s a pity we didn’t get to see any northern lights, but that’s Mother Nature for you, you don’t always get what you want! It was still great, and I’m sure I could spen even more hours there.
![The Blue Lagood after dark.](http://reise.avenannenverden.no/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/IMG_0461.jpg)
The Blue Lagood after dark.
Sunday it was time to bid farewell, and head back to Norway. I hope to go back to Iceland in a not too distant future!