Reyjkavik

Plane was 30 minutes leaving but still managed to arrive on time just after 4 p.m. Iceland time.  It is quite weird travelling on my own where I'm in the significant minority that does not speak a second language.  Anyway, I can usually make myself known and lots of pointing and shrugging of shoulders seems to be working okay for me so far.
Having arrived in Iceland to very low cloud and heavy rain that seemed to blow in sideways, it was not the most promising start, however I had been pre-warned not to panic when upon leaving the airport I was confronted with a very depressing moonscape in all directions.   Eventually the countryside became less bleak and various styles of housing was dotted all over the place.  We drove through a 'town' called 'Town of Elves' but it looked like it was more like an industrial area than anything that elves might want to set up house in. Anyway after about a 50 minute bus trip into Reyjkavik (which is a large, sprawling and well developed city), I was dropped at the Natura hotel which is right next to the domestic airport. While waiting at reception to book in, Jan came down to the lobby to meet me so it was hugs all around then up to our room for a well earned cuppa and catch up.  She has had a great time in London, although there was a bit of fun and games initially booking into her London hotel. We'll have to update you all on that at a later time - when neither of us are so tired.
The rain has stopped but it is still very very windy outside.  In checking tomorrow's weather it is forecast for rain so we'll try and be optimistic
Anyway, we have checked out our tour paperwork of what time we have to be ready in the lobby in the morning and decided that we'd both like an early night, so headed down to the hotel restaurant where we shared a cheese croquette entree which was heavenly, and then Jan had the vegetarian lasagne which didn't have any pasta in it & she says tasted decidedly like ratatouille while I had a hamburger which touched the spot perfectly.  After a carafe of white wine we then asked for the bill which I paid for on a credit card.  It came to some 10,000 Kroner which Jan worked out to be about $11 each. She was impressed at how reasonably priced the meal was.  However I worked it out to about $50 each ... and so my Icelandic adventure with Jan begins!