We traveled around the tip of the Snaefellsnes Peninsula today. Lots of old lava flows, volcanic craters, huge mountains, wonderful fjords, this truly is a picturesque place. By following some rough tracks through lava beds we got to the very tip of the peninsula. It was a windswept (an understatement) bleak place. Reading the information signs I was amazed, this place was a landing spot for fishermen and their boats. Here it was the middle of summer and I am dressed in a modern down jacket feeling like I am freezing yet in the 1600's French fishermen worked these waters and used this very spot as a base -- brrrr. Just to make the point there is an abandond well at this spot, a well that is accessed by a short tunnel - thats right the well itself is underground.

Mid morning we stopped at the little village of Grundarfjordur, had some coffee and chocolate cake at a local cafe. the place was full of tourist catching up on their internet chores.

A bit further on we stopped at Olafsvik to have a look at the town church which is made entirely of triangular pieces.