After taking organized tours the two previous days, we decided to take the shuttle bus into town and walk around. This would be a short day, with the ship leaving at 3pm, so we got on the first shuttle bus at 8:30am. We had been unable to get downtown yesterday because there was a big festival, including the gay pride parade.
This is the house that Gorbachev and Reagan met in 1986.
Sun Voyager -- street art
The locals probably considered this a calm day, only 30 knot winds at 7C coming from the harbor. We Floridians were freezing. (30 knots= ~305mph at 7C = 44F)
The HARP concert hall
Gate to block off the street for pedestrians
They rainbow painted the street for yesterday's festival. That's the big Lutheran Church at the end.
Hallgrimskirkja, the parish Lutheran Church of Reykjavik
Patterned brick outside the front door
The pew backs are like train seats -- you can flip the backs to either side so you can face the front or the back of the church.
Lief Ericsson statue, a gift of the United States
Seen in a house window, this is a solar powered moving figure. The queen "waves" her hand in the royal fashion by rotating it back and forth.
Someone dumped a bag of bread crumbs on the lake shore and this happened.
The crew was having a life raft drill when we returned. Here they demonstrate the operation of a life raft.
This is the house that Gorbachev and Reagan met in 1986.
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