Our wannabe mom prepared us breakfast this morning, however the other guests ate most of it before we got up, bloody tourists! We had to make to with three pieces of toast between us and some cornflakes but no milk. There were chocolate biscuits still available though for some reason.
We didn't have a lot of plans for today, it was to be a semi chill day albeit with a decent length drive to our destination on the far east coast of the island. We stopped occasionally for photos but had yet to see any reindeer, so Martin demanded that as Mark was the driver he should find some. Literally one corner later there was a herd of reindeer. Stuart was not impressed and demanded that Mark found some without a fence in the way; Martin then added that there should be a good landscape in the background and some puffins or something too. Within two minutes Mark pulled up 10 meters away from reindeer with mountains in the background, next to a lake full of geese. Martin demanded lottery numbers! Unfortunately thus is the only pic of them got the blog as the proper cameras footage isn't easy to transfer to the iPad and Mark couldn't be bothered getting out if the car to picture them.
Onwards we went and found another nice area to picture. Mark got out and launched the drone to get a nice video, JUST after launch he heard 'excuse me', to find two Japanese tourists holding a map asking directions. Mark pointed them to a Keith who told them what road they were on (there is only one road on this side of the island) and which way to go and sent them on their way. Bloody tourists!
Along the way there was a geyser in the sea that we went to find, unfortunately it wasn't signposted so we couldn't find it and just went for an unplanned walk along the coast instead. On the way back, Keith had a call if nature so went for a wee, however he hadn't calculated the wind correctly... so without going into too many details, the sea geyser is now renamed to sea geezer.
Back in the road we ascended into the mountains where it was white sky, snowy mountains each side, and then it snowed. The 4x4 actually coped ok with this well, although to be fair , a Nissan Micra would have been fine with the amount of snow we had. We stopped for pics however.
We arrived at the town where we were staying but too early to check in, we went for lunch and ate our normal array of crap which involved burgers fries, fried chicken, all that good stuff.
We then went for a drive around the lake which was a 50km drive, they gave big lakes here. Legend has it that there is a Loch Ness style monster in this lake and there were 'sightings' just a few years ago. Needless to say we didn't see anything, however, we're sure the local gift shops will sell us some tat about it.
We checked in to our apartment which is actually really nice, it's on the lake edge so has amazing views and there's plenty of room for us all inside. We went shopping as we thought we'd cook our own dinner but ended up having crisp sandwiches.
Late on the evening we went hunting for the northern lights but the cloud cover was too much, the lights were definitely there, just the other side of the clouds which was very frustrating. Martin got up at 4am to see if the situation had improved, but nothing. Maybe tomorrow.
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