I went to Reykjavik in June 2017 with my friend Jim. Like everyone else who has visited the city, we started by planning to go elsewhere and were wooed by Iceland Air's low fares and the ability to have a "free" stopover in the country. We were very fortunate with the weather, which turned sunny (if not warm) for our visit after weeks of drizzle. We spent a day very profitably in Reykjavik, exploring the city's streets and visiting some museums and galleries, and then hopped a rented car the next day and drove north across the country to Akureyri. We had lovely sunny weather for our drive as well, and a great visit in our charming AirBnB there.
Photo List (Total 340 Photos)
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Inner Reykjavik (107 photos) - There is really no logical way to divide up my Reykjavik photos into palatable bits, so I sort of divided the city into two bits, and this gallery is the bit to the right, which includes most of the "official" sites in the city. This includes their parliament, the city hall, the big concert hall called the Harpa, and many of the commercial streets in the centre of town. The main building of the Reykjavik Art Gallery is presented here, as is the port area.
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Outer Reykjavik (107 photos) - The second more or less random selection of photos is the area slightly to the west of the historical core. The starts with the huge cathedral that dominates the skyline, the Hallgrimskirkja, it shows the waterfront including some modern buildings there, two of the three galleries that together comprise the Reykjavik Art Gallery, and the Botanical Garden, and yes, the Penis Museum.
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Driving Route 1 and other roads (88 photos) - These photos are those outside Reykjavik and Akureyri that show our drive in the Icelandic countryside. These are in the order they were taken, and include the initial drive and the return back, so for instance, the town of Borgarnes is represented twice. They are mostly shots of mountains and the lovely and bleak, sparsely populated landscape.
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Akureyri (38 photos) - We spent the night in a smaller city on the north side of the island called Akureyri. These photos show the townscape, including the world's most northern botanical garden.
