Day 4 in Iceland

Today was A LOT more mellow than yesterday!

After spending the night in a former marina that is now converted into a guesthouse, we headed into the town of Seyðisfjörður for some coffee.

Our guesthouse (it came with free wifi and complimentary use of the yellow shopping cart).

The guesthouse's parking lot. The place was practically begging for a horror movie to be filmed there.

Just up the street from where we stayed.

Seyðisfjörður was so vivid and cute, and I particularly loved the rainbow walkway through town.

We left town around 1 pm and drove through the fjords, stopping to see some really cool waterfalls along the way.

We then stopped in Eskifjördur for some groceries, where I was once again happily surprised to find vegan yogurt, especially in a town with a population of 1,043 (yes, I googled that). Thank you Icelandic grocery stores for coming through with the non-dairy products!

 After looking at some local arts and crafts in Eskifjördur, we headed to Reyðarfjörður and hit up the World War II museum. There, we watched a documentary all about British soldiers in Iceland, which was quite fascinating.

Then, we drove along the eastern coast and stumbled upon Petra's Stone Collection, which is the largest private collection of rocks in the world. It was pretty cool to see, but, it kind of felt like an episode of Hoarders since even the tour indicated that "the rocks began taking over her house in the 70s."

She also collected pens and key chains (unclear whether those took over her house). But I suppose it just goes to show that if you live in a small town with nothing to do, you can likely make a living through hoarding. I wonder if guests on the show have heard of coastal Iceland...it might be lucrative.

We then got to Djúpivogur and checked into our guest house, where I took advantage of the cute kitchen and made some dinner.

Before calling it a day, we checked out Eggin í Gleðivík, an artwork that consists of 34 eggs, one representing each species of local birds.