Land of Fire and Ice on a bike: Djúpivogur to Fáskrú∂sfjör∂ur and onto Skjöldólfssta∂ir

Biddy, maker of beef sandwiches and fan of Glaswegian clubs

View from the campsite at Fáskrú∂sfjör∂ur

East, we must go east. Popped into the hotel in Djúpivogur for breakfast and ate like kings, salmon, blueberry jam, ham and cheese, not all on the same slice. More reasonable than most English hotels too.
On the road in good enough time, heading around a few fjords to our eastern most extent, Fáskrú∂sfjör∂ur. The fjords here run between steep sided slopes topped with numerous pyramid like mountains. The eroded strata makes them look as if they have been built by Egyptian slaves, perhaps they have...

A French flag, in another country, for more than 5 minutes. Extraordinary.

My determination to get on with cycling has resulted in fewer roadside landscape pictures, I would like to capture some of the wildlife (on camera, I'm not certain I'd be allowed to bring a Puffin through Gatwick), we have scheduled a day off in two days, and I hope to take some time to spot a few interesting and interested subjects.
Fáskrú∂sfjör∂ur is about to start an annual French festival, the town was used by the French fishing fleet over 200 years ago and in recent times much of the towns infrastructure, such as the hospital and the school have been built with French money. The town has French street names and the Tricolor flies from the town's flagpoles.
Tomorrow we head north, starting with a 6km tunnel. I am glad I brought my enormous rear light and have a very brightly coloured gillet, cycling under a mountain is unnerving.

Not all the views in Iceland are stunning

No internet last night so here we are in Skjöldólfssta∂ir, it is nothing more than a hotel on the side of the road on the way to Myvatn, a major tourist spot and where we head tomorrow. We are now about 800km in after 8 days.

Spending hours on the bike, you think about many things, such as wondering if they thought about the wisdom of drilling a 6km tunnel under a mountain in some of the most geologically active land on earth, after a few anxious moments I reassured myself they probably had. Then remembered that Trolls lurk in tunnels, there were many unexplained caves either side of the road under the mountain, in one I am sure I saw something moving...