Day 5 - Drive to Djupavik

Driving

(Before I start, please forgive any missing accents or mis-spellings of any names/places in Iceland! they are complicated!)

The drive

We left our beautiful little house and drove around 45 minutes to a small petrol station that had a breakfast place. We had a nice little breakfast and then continued driving down the valley to get to somewhere where you can see seals lying on the beach. The others (everyone except me (Ellie)) got out to see the seals but I wasn't SUPER interested so stayed in the car. Apparently the were many seals lounging about, I will get someone else to write about them later on! 

Then we drove to a very nice restaurant a little further down the road, approx. 15 mins. Their food is all home grown/produces I think and we all had some nice soup and cake for dessert. It was really good!

We then drove around 3h 30 mins to get to Djupavik. We stopped an hour and a half before Djupavik in Holmavik for coffee and cake in a cafe next to an Icelandic Witch craft museum. Then the rest of the drive was on twisting gravel roads. 

We arrived at the Hotel (Hotel Djupavik) and got our rooms, 2 rooms each with 3 beds. (1 with - Daddy, Mommy and me (Ellie) and the other with Nina, Miriam and Charlotte) Then we had dinner at the hotel, nice food.

Djupavik from above

The seals

We stopped on our way to Djupavik at a beach type place to see some seals. We saw TONS of seals, at least 20 were lounging on the sand opposite us. The seals were of a magnificent grey colour and were very shiny and wet. We walked along the beach and found some pretty shells. The water from the sea was glimmering in the beautiful sunshine, however it was incredibly windy! Our hoods almost flew off! It was really cool to see real seals, so close to us! 

Written by Charlotte (with a tiny bit of help from Ellie) :)