Silly Billies Return to Roam

After a very rainy and slightly dismal morning in Landmannalaugar fixing up my broken brake we decided to continue inland, into the desert of the Sprengisandur. This was definitely to be the most cold and miserable day we had in Iceland - if we'd known this at the time it might have been better! We had bought some extra food supplies at the Landmannalaugar 'store' which consists of a bus full of extremely expensive basic food items. We calculated we may not come across a shop for another 6 days, so we it was worth the expense! We had a strong tail wind pushing us away from the warm hot springs of Landmannalaugar, and we were quickly flying along the flat, quite good shingle road which leads to the F19. The sands were black and there wasn't much to see as the rain came down and mist hung low on the flat landscape. Some motor cyclists hooned past us, but we were making pretty good progress. The landscape was pretty bleak in this area and very windy! Soon we ...

The lava at Landmannalauger In Selfoss we were caught by the big black rain cloud that had chased us all morning. We had decided that we would take a bus for the next stage of our journey, as it consisted of a long flat main road that is reported to be extremely busy. So we enjoyed the luxury of the bus (especially given the rain spots). The 'jeep bus' on the way to þórsmörk When we reached Hvolsvollur we were all piled on to a more 'jeep like' bus because the road into þórsmörk (þ is pronounced as a 'th' sound) is rough and has several deep river crossings. We stopped at a beautiful waterfall called Storidalur. The Storidalur cascades off a mossy cliff þórsmörk is an amazing place, the gateway to another world. After crossing wide glacial outwash plains and barren mountain sides we reached the leafy green campspot, with it's own little hot pool (which unfortunately wasn't quite hot enough) and hut. We camped there for the night along ...