Second day in Iceland

After a good night's sleep we woke up and went to breakfast at 8:30. We had a nice balanced breakfast including cereal, toast, fruit and lots of biscuits! Then we went for a extremely long HELEN walk! Helen's walks are long but this was even longer. When we finally ended the walk at this beautiful church we were split into small groups of 5 and 7. When we started walking off into groups, Edda's group decided to go into the church and up the tower. We walked in casually and then got stopped and told it cost 700 kr EACH and we all said no straightaway. We then walked around some shops and lots of people spent most of their money. In the shops we bought traditional Icelandic souvenirs.

Once we'd all finished shopping we met at the church to enjoy our "lovely" lunch. Until we realised that most of us had vegetable sandwiches or chicken, egg and iceberg lettuce. When we were walking back to the hostel by the sea and mountains a guide said “I need the toilet” another guide said  “I wonder if you pee will your wee freeze?” Look at the picture which shows that it is zero degrees.

When we arrived at the hostel we were all very cold even though some of us were wearing 5 or 6 layers, but then some people only wore 1 or 2.  Hats are very important in the cold.  

At 5:45 we met in the lobby and prepared to walk to have dinner. Helen didn't really know were she was going so we went in most doors until we arrived at the right destination. We walked into this building called World Class and went into their separate function room and we had a whole restaurant to ourselves. For starters we had homemade mushroom soup with brown wholemeal bread. For mains most of us had chicken with potatoes and grape and carrot salad but the vegetarians had a couscous salad. When we finished dinner we walked back to the hostel for preparing for a long trip on the coach to see the northern lights!

Here they are:

We got back. It was 00:15; most of us had a nap on the coach though so we got in and Helen told us to go straight to bed and to come down at 8:30 for breakfast in our pyjamas!

Written by Alice G, Alice P, Eleanor B, Jade and Grace (The Chocolate Whales)