Today we're taking a journey to Iceland in summer to see how this beautiful
country changes landscapes from the last time we visited during winter we've
learned a lot from our first trip to Iceland two years ago and we're here
again to see the country as it changes form during August we're flying with
American Airlines on their latest flight route connecting through Dallas for only
$451 roundtrip be sure to bring your own entertainment onboard this flight as the
budget price is reflected with onboard offerings next we rent a car at the
Reykjavik Airport and check into our Reykjavik accommodations we check into
the Rey apartments which comes highly rated on TripAdvisor so brief hotel tour
this is the Rey apartments in downtown Reykjavik we have three beds here it was
about $270 per night but it's an entire studio apartment so we can make food
here with a full kitchen sofa and cheers and I believe it sleeps up to four
people we have a private bathroom
this is the lobby of the Rey apartments it's early in the morning it's really
cute little Lobby they don't have anyone here throughout the day though so you
press the little bell but we're right in the downtown now we hit the road down
Highway one setting out for Jökulsárlón but we'll see how far we can get as
daylight lasts until about 9:00 p.m. here gas stations have food here
so we were trying to go to JJökulsárlón but we got held up the route was
blocked because of a bridge so they rerouted us and it was gonna take over
five and a half hours to get there so now time for Plan B this is very Iceland
they have all of their day wrapped up in plastic so we just stopped off the road
so he stopped off here this is eyjafjallajökull
we went taking up this glacier on our last trip here but now it is green
scenery here is it's sunny out now and this entire country just lights up in
the Sun just illuminates
this is the entrance to school I'm approaching a glacier called school
Sólheimajökull glacier you can go glacier trekking I was here during the
wintertime when I was here during wintertime this whole area was frozen in
fact it was snowing and I had to wear special trekking shoes to track the
glacier
and everybody you guys to listen for once again it's so quiet here what do
you think about this lagoon close second to where we're going
Iceland! Sólheimajökull glacier! Sun glacier feel how cold water is oh my god
that is pure ice just incredible the air is so fresh so you can still go trekking
during the summer time but I see most people are faking honestly I've never
been to a country where every turn off the road is something otherworldly
something special and something magical
we're just following the echoes of a waterfall trying to find it and it looks
like we're on the moon or something like that some kind of abandoned so we
finally reached what we thought was a waterfall and it's really some Rapids
all the glacier ice is melting and it turned into Rapids
it's time to head back to the city for a tour of Reykjavik so we're walking
through this neighborhood aren't our way back to the hotel look at the look at
the houses here look at the materials that they use for the roof. Some
of them have greenhouses in the backyards it's really cool you see so
now we are passing by the university right here that's the university. There's a rainbow
here and that's for Pride. And then I want to point out how clear
it is today there is not a cloud in the sky
I'm a free sculpture garden right behind Hallgrímskirkja
Oh check this out WOW airlines provides city bikes
50 Icelandic króna which is about three US dollars for 30 minutes always have
new art here it's amazing
we check out the downtown in search for food we find a vegan restaurant many
pubs and upscale restaurants along the way we check out the local shops street
art and sidewalk art good things about this little bar
leading up to help from skirt the church we find a painted Rainbow Road in
celebration for Pride Week which happened a week before our visit in
August downtown right now we're on Lokastígur
Street it's very quiet residential street and we're looking for
food but it's about 10:30 p.m. so a lot of stuff is closed but it's still light
out
music shop - Pinocchio
Now we're talking!
forty bucks we got two hams and a beer at about 10 p.m. the Sun
finally set it's time to go check out the city at night this is the area in
front of the harpa look at all this construction it's insane I love this
building
the late show of the heart but is mesmerizing
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basalt lava columns in the middle of the streets of Reykjavik
know how to tie a tie now you do! Street art baby - Reykjavikk in a mural with
Godzilla at Hallgrimskirkja