We all woke up fairly early so we went to breakfast when we could. It consisted of bread, a toaster, choc croissants and sliced egg, but it was only £12 each so what did we really expect. The problem was that the toaster took forever so we had to hog it for about an hour, and then stuffed our faces with croissants while we waited. The plan was to eat so much for breakie that we could skip lunch and therefore save ourselves £500 each.
On the road, someone cut Mark up, so he politically incorrectly called the other driver a Joey, much to Keith's amusement. Keith googled and found that Joey Deaken died in 1981 so it really was a blast from the past.
The car is still shit, the problem where the tire catches on the arch has got worse, in fact the inner arch has now been ripped off in one place. The fuel guage continues to move faster than a wheel of fortune so we've no idea what fuel we have at any time!
We visited a national park and went for a walk over a hilly thing where there a partial path, this led up to a viewing area where there were a million Japanese tourists all armed with selfie sticks. We'd rather have faced a zombie hoard I think, but we made it out of the carnage alive.
We then went to a nearby waterfall where Cederic had to tell several people off for getting in the way of his camera shots.
Heading back to the car, Martin was cleaning his boots before getting in the car when he slipped on some ice and properly went arse over tit and landed on his butt. The others obviously found this highly amusing and mocked him accordingly.
Driving to the next location the amazing car cut out while turning a corner, this cut the power steering which made the car difficult to control to say the least. Being an automatic, you couldn’t just restart it either, you had to shift to Park, etc and then turn the key.
Whilst parking at the next place, the car cut out again but this time we figured out what it was, because we're so cramped, Mark's knees are on the dashboard and if he moves his right knee 2 inches to the right it knocks the key which turns the car off. What a great design. No one ever buy a Jeep.
We went to view a Geyser which was surrounded by hot springs. Surprisingly, it was bloody cold though. The geyser was pretty cool, it would erupt every 5 mins or so blowing boiling water 15 meters into the air.
This area is tourist central with coach loads turning up constantly. The shop was rammed and I'm sure that more money changed hands in that souvenir shop that in a Las Vegas casino on fight night!
Onwards to the next stop which was another waterfall, this time a big one, kinda Niagra scale falls. As it was cold last time out of the car we opted to wear our full ninja outfits, which was hats, snoods, hoods etc. Except Martin who for some reason wore a gimp suit instead.
The falls were stunning, but it was a good job we'd ninja'd up as there was a full on hail storm which hurt like hell if it hit your skin. Keith and Mark did the team thing and went back to the car leaving Martin and Cederic with all their camera gear.
Back at the car Mark decided that it was time for the maiden flight of his drone which only turned up the day before we left, so no time to practice. He didn't have the bottle to fly it over the falls so just had a practice flight over some grass land. It was incredibly stable in the high winds and didn't crash horrendously which was a bonus!
Time to move on so and as we hadn't seen a waterfall for 10 mins we decided to find another one.
This was a medium sized secluded one, Mark was happy with this as no tourists meant he could play with the drone more. However, whilst setting it up 100 cars arrived out of nowhere. He flew it anyway and nearly took out Cederic in the process.
It was now time to head back to base which was a 90 drive in our 2x4 car.
Back at the hotel we chilled out for a few mins before heading out for food. We'd had some good recommendations for burgers so that was the plan.
Mark drove into town to avoid horrendous taxi charges and we found the burger joint of choice. The problem was that like most restaurants in Iceland, you can only fit 3 people in the entire place, so we moved on to the next on the list.
It was a strange one this, out the back of a posh expensive looking bar was a dirty burger place, so we ordered our burgers with our fussy requirements and sat in the bar waiting for them.
When they arrived of course two of them were wrong, Keith sent his back but Martin was so hungry he just tucked in. The guy who served us was so upset that he'd got it wrong that he gave us 4 vouchers for free meals. So that was about 2 grands worth of freebies, we'd better guard those with more care than our passports!
After dinner we went to a place called Yo Yo which was an ice cream parlour that Cederic had spotted. It was a strange but cool place where you just helped yourself to as much ice cream, sprinkles, sauces etc as you liked and then it was just weighed at the end and you took out a second mortgage. Nice though.
Back to the hotel afterwards for a planning session with vodka.
Today was Martin's turn to lose everything, with his phone, headphones and ipod going missing.
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