Don’t judge. The IKEA in Iceland offers up fresh food at a reasonable price. In a country where a bowl of soup for some reason costs over $15 (seriously I have no idea why soup here is so expensive; also it’s often the only thing on the menu), you can get a delicious order of plokkfiskur for about $10. What is plokkfiskur you ask? Cod fish and mashed potatoes mixed up into a delicious lumpy piece of heaven.

We also saw an active volcano today. Just a lot of puffs of smoke in the distance. But we will take what we can get. There is a six mile hike one can take to see the volcano up close. But you do so going into poisonous smoke. Some days I guess are safer to do this hike than others. Today for example the government shut down that trail due to secondary smoke from fires caused by the lava.

We did not meet the Prime Minister of Iceland today. Missed her by about five minutes. I guess Prime Minister Jakobsdottir and her family reached the summit of Mount Helgafell just a little bit before us and then chose to continue the slightly longer circle route (we rested a bit then turned around to go back to the car). The two hikers who did meet their Prime Minister were not at all surprised by their luck. In fact it is not uncommon at all to see prominent politicians as well as actors and musicians (like Bjork) out and about.

That’s all for now. Our Airbnb hosts have company over and they are getting a bit rowdy. So it is off for some FROYO.