WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 20, 2025 // Day 6
After a breakfast of the most delicious chocolate filled croissants, we left Höfn at 8AM and began the five and a half hour drive back to Reykjavik, making a few stops along the way.
Our first not-just-a-bathroom-break-stop was Fjaðrárgljúfur Canyon.
Our next stop was some lava fields. When Osk originally told us about the lava fields, she mentioned when they don’t get a lot of rain, they are gray. I didn’t understand what she meant - how could moss be gray? Now I get it! The volcano that resulted in these lava fields last erupted in 1783. The ash carried over to the European mainland and messed with their crops for years on end.
We drove another hour and then stopped in Vik for lunch. We were originally scheduled to spend two nights in Vik, but they’re were shifted to Höfn. Regardless, I had pinned some dinner options on my maps. We opted for Black Crust Pizzaria. Some of their pizzas are made with activated charcoal to give them the black crust that was inspired by the black sand beaches. The pizza Aaron and I shared had pepperoni, sausage, cream cheese, cherry tomato, date pesto and basil. I also grabbed a pack of the homemade macarons. There were 6 in the pack - 2 of each Lava (dark chocolate and espelette pepper), Glacier (vanilla), Aurora (blueberry). Vik was a super cute town and I’m kind of bummed the plan changed and we didn’t get to stay there.
We had 2.5 hours left to drive to Reykjavík. We made one more bathroom stop, but we’re overall ready to be done with the bus for the day. After arriving in Reykjavík around 5, we checked back into the FossHotel Reykjavík and got situated for our 6PM dinner reservations at Eiriksson Brasserie. the starter was citrus cured Artic char with cucumbers and dill mayonnaise, cauliflower and caviar. Not a single bit of this sounded appetizing to me. I DID try it though! Since I didn’t have a tortilla available to me, I took one of the slices of bread and caved out a divot. Then, I put a mix of the stuff in it and ate it. That was the end of that. The texture was too much for me. My neighbor (and partner in trouble making) Julie didn’t like it either. She told me to spread it all over the plate so it looked like I ate it like she did. I told her I needed to leave it in the mound I put it in because it was covering the big chunk of raw fish I didn’t eat! The main dish was cod with potatoes, carrots, zucchini, and Kalamata olives. I’m so fished out at this point. I did eat half the cod. I didn’t have any potatoes and only one olive, so Aaron gave me his potatoes and olives. Lastly, we were served dessert - tiramisu with chocolate sorbet. As a non-coffee drinker, I don’t like tiramisu either because of the coffee taste. I did like the chocolate sorbet as least! Mom gave me her scoop as well.
We did a little shopping then headed back to the hotel for the night. Mom and Sarah had to back as they were flying home in the morning and the rest of our crew was heading off to west Iceland for a couple days before our flight back home.
ICYMI
