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Reykjavík

Last full day in Iceland - no bus trips! Instead we bought a Reykjavík welcome card and hit the museums.

We started with the maritime museum, which was very much like any other maritime museum, but with more dried fish.  There'd been a fair amount of fishing related stuff at the folk museum too - as obviously the sea is rather important in the history of small island countries!

Then we went to the 871±2 settlement museum - located under a random hotel, where they found the remains of a longhouse during building work.  This one was really interesting, and nicely done... continue reading »