Reykjavik to Vik

Nice breakfast at the hotel after a reasonable night's sleep, although when we went to bed it was like gale force winds against the window, sufficient for Jan to volunteer to close the window without me suggesting it! So off we head south on our first full day of our Volcanoes and Glaciers tour.  Bjornee is our travel guide and Bjorn in our driver.  There are 21 people on the tour, mainly Brits plus a young couple from Virginia, USA (or as he says, just out of Washington), and we haven't had a chance to meet the others properly yet.
Weather is cool, but certainly not cold, but grey and rain/drizzle.  We pass such amazingly diverse terrain - the black lava fields versus lush green fertile farming land. Our first stop is at a fabulous waterfall that we are actually able to go and walk behind.  It is light rain at the time, but I got more wet the closer I got to the waterfall.  Jan ofcourse was Princess Shiny Bright and was sidetracked with every other drop of water, so managed to get decidedly wetter than I thought necessary as she made her way right around the back of the waterfall! Even though the weather was disappointing, we still managed to get some super photos.  The force of the water coming over the top of the lava hill was breath taking. 
Then on to Eyjafjallajokull Visitor Centre which is near Porvaldseyri Farm which is located at the foot of the Eyjafjallajokull volcano that last erupted in April 2010 (and caused airports all over the world to close due to the volcano ash.) we saw a 20 minute video about the volcano which was really interesting.  Jan wanted to buy some bits of volcano rock from the lovely little gift shop on site, but we are unsure about whether she could bring them back into the country if Customs got hold of them. So instead we both bought magnets that said," What part of EYJAFJALLAJOKULL don't you understand?'
Then it was on into Skogar and the Skogafoss waterfall. Again truly breath taking ( but still in light rian.drizzle).  Then on to the Skogar Folk Museum where we had lunch - lovely big bowl of mushroom soup which was very tasty.  Had a good look around the museum and could easily have spent more time there, but time to get back on he bus and away we go past the Solheimajokull Glacier.  due to the poor weather conditions we weren't able to stop at it or do any walking on it, but maybe we'll get more lucky with the weather tomorrow.  So instead we stopped at the ocean near Vik.  Amazing coastline and not a speck of sand in sight. It was all all volcano 'soil', rocks and pebbles.  Was quite windy and again that damn drizzle but nothing that is going to stop us going exploring.  Had a nice hot chocolate in the cafe and then back onto the coach for a short drive the other side of the rocky outcrop to the small town/village of Vik. Arrived at our hotel and when we got our suitcases out the back of the bus, I found that the front of my suitcase was very wet - have no idea how it happened other than knowing that my suitcase had been placed top side down on the floor of the luggage compartment and it must have been very wet there somehow. I wasn't happy and showed Bjornee who also couldn't work out how it happened. don't really care whether he solves the mystery or not, as I told him that I won't be putting my suitcase in the bottom of the luggage compartment again.  Once in our room I got the suitcase open and found a few papers inside the top pocket were wet along with most of my socks and some of my smalls ( or more correctly my not-so-smalls).  Quick wash up in the bathroom handbasin and a makeshift Chinese laundry over the shower got that mini disaster under control. We went across the road to what Bjornee had told us was a woollen shop with supposedly locally made knitted/woolen items, but I wasn't convinced that anything there was made locally and the woollen items were very 'rough' to the touch and I'm sure would have been very itchy to wear, plus they were very expensive so no purchases for me there.  Went next door to the roadhouse to buy some tea bags and milk, but could only get the tea bags.  Back at hotel reception we asked for a small jug of milk and then back to our room where Jan offered to make us a cuppa which was a lovely thought on her part until she went to grab the electric jug off the little plastic tray bench it was sitting on and managed to pull the whole plastic tray off the wall, sending the jug base, coffee and tea sachets, cups and mixers in every direction.  Once we gathered up that mess and decided not to attempt to put the plastic tray back on the wall, she then went to fill the jug and managed to pull the lid completely off the top of the jug. By this stage I figured I needed alcohol a damn sight more than I needed a cuppa but Jan being Jan persisted and eventually a cup of tea was made and enjoyed.  Time for dinner so we dutifully trooped off to the restaurant where our group had the set menu of chicken broth soup,rack of lamb and vegetables, then Skyr dessert.  Jan being our token Vegetarian, had a salad then quiche (which they called Vegetable pie). We had both had enough so headed back to our room for an early night.  Bjornee had said that he wanted the group to all get together after dinner so that we could do introductions, but we'd had enough so said our farewells to those at our table and back to our room where we settled in for the night.
It's been a lovely day, despite the weather not being as kind as it could be.  Chances are that tomorrow will be even better.
(PS, Jan said to include that she hasn't done any thing silly yet, but her idea of 'silly' clearly doesn't gel with mine as I've had to give her THE LOOK a few times already today!)