Starting with route 1 I soon divert north on route 82 towards Hauganes
Just to get a pick of the harbour!
there's a little coming themed bar/cafe in the harbour I resist it!
Back on the 82 with the views constantly causing my attention to wander! Parts of this road that's the last thing I need some of the drops to my right are a bit hairy!
Pulling over just before the first of three tunnels I'll be going through I look back....
you can really see it but this was a steep drop, I appreciated the next bit ... I'm into a tunnel for a two way road the 6km tunnel being only a single lane with parking places is a bit fun! Pay the dwarves more next time please!!
Totally doable tho there isn't much traffic, which is certainly standard for this route!
Out the other side Olafsfjordur the name of the Fyord
and the town
A quite industrial fishing town are quickly passed through before entering a tunnel ... The dwarves had been payed well for this one two lanes! (Right of pic)
taking me through from a sunny fyord to the polar opposite in the next!
the cloud cover here must be fairly consistent the far fyord is still frozen!
This would have benefited an Icelandic mother Gudrun Porarinsdottir who had to make a near lethal journey from her farm at Hvanndalier in the 1850's to the nearest farm Vik in this fyord to get wood for the fire after running out while her husband was away shark fishing!
Through tunnel 3 and I'm back in the sunshine..... There's probably a really good reason that the farm Vik had plenty of fire wood!
Another 7k of tunnel gets me to Siglufyordur a pleasant enough modern looking place....
It occurs to me here that you don't see old buildings in Iceland! Odd!!
The route goes through town then up and up!
Any viewpoint is a welcome breather from the road! ..... Yeah it's 'interesting' with equally interesting views
And colourful light houses
A long long stretch of gravely road road twisting left right up and down precipitously past small farms plenty of pony farms here ... Way to many to be for carting stuff about, possibly horse meat?..... No idea
Once again it's locked.
So on I go, a long comparably boring section of route 76(the road changed names at Olafsfjordur) and I reach route 1 again, it's pretty late now and I'm certain I won't reach the planned stop so I'm keeping an eye open for wild camps(lay-bys) stopping at one with a toilet on the top of a barren more with the hills atop it
i read a grizzly story of the last execution in Iceland that took place here at Pristapar, when Friðrik Sigurðsson and Agnes Magnúsdóttir were put to death on 12 January 1830.
They had murdered Natan Ketilsson and Pétur Jónsson at Illugastaðir, Natan's farm, in 1828. The bodies were interred without ceremony at the site of execution, and their heads displayed on pikes!!!
This didn't make for my idea of a comfortable place to stop.... I move on!!
There's a campsite in the next town.... It doesn't open till summer ... I find a lay-by and call it quits!!
Your not supposed to use places like this but it's getting late and I don't care too follow the rules!
I get a good night's sleep!!
