Njarðvik & The Blue Lagoon - 7th to 8th August 2003

Njarðvik & The Blue Lagoon, 3/13: Njarðvik Hostel

After failing to find any puffins, we headed towards Njaršvik, which is on the northern side of the Reykjanes peninsular. This took us past the Blue Lagoon, which we would come back to in the morning to partake in the healing warm waters.

Njaršvik and Keflavik (all, it seemed, part of the same settlement) make up one of Icelands largest settlements outside Reykjavik. The hostel was nice and, for most of the evening we had the entire hostel to ourselves however later in the evening we were joined by a number of other people who, we think, had just arrived on the flight that we had come in on nine days earlier.

We decided to splash out on a proper meal out, so went to the restaurant recommended by both the hostel staff and our trusty guidebook - Rain. We had an exceptionally lovely, if expensive (eating out in Iceland, as you may have gathered, is staggeringly expensive) meal.

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