Iceland Day 6 - Akureyri (Eyjafjordur)
Tuesday, June 11. The Icelanders are marking today on their calendars because we heard that it set a new high for the temperature on this date. How cool is that! Again, we can’t go anywhere without the locals telling us how lucky we are. I’m just glad they are not on strike or something...to take a “sick” day to enjoy the weather. :) Just a shout out to our very good God who created such a beautiful place and gave us a remarkably beautiful day. Forcing myself out of bed, I opened the curtains (that make our room very dark) and beside my window below was the pilot boat guiding us into the dock. Akureyri (kinda sounds like you are saying like an “actuary” table without any emphasis on the t) is the longest of the fjords, Eyjafjordur, on the north of Iceland being around 50 kilometers long. It is nicknamed the “Capitol of the North” and is a quite lovely and bustling town. It sits at the end of the fjord surrounded by snow capped mountains. The city was founded by the Viking Helgi Hrolf...