Off to Iceland, Day 15, 08/17/26 On to Bergen

This morning we docked in Reykjavík.
I say ‘morning’ even though it was only 5:00 am. (I’d say 0-dark:30 but it was actually daylight out.)
We hurried thru our ablutions and headed to the buffet (which opened early today).

Surprise of the morning – the shift supervisor in the buffet looked vaguely familiar.
We had a fun catching up with Jay – a shift supervisor for our world cruise 3 years ago.
It’s always surprising who you will meet on the last day of a cruise, having shared the ship with them the whole time and never running in to each other.

6:00 found us in the Atrium waiting for our number (green 1) to be called, so that we could leave the ship for the last time, find our luggage in the luggage hall, and board our assigned bus for the airport.

The bus ride to the airport took about 40 minutes.

At the airport…
We grabbed our luggage and headed into the mass of humanity that is the Reykjavik airport.
Several long lines later (but really only 90 minutes) we were thru the duty-free maze and waiting for our gate assignment.

Eventually gate assignment came up on the board and we entered another line to scan our boarding pass and get in line to get on the bus (that hauled us on a tour of Iceland Air planes spread across the tarmac before finally finding our plane).

The flight to Bergen was just over 2 hours (and 2 timezones).
We claimed our luggage, checked in with the nice lady holding a Viking Clipboard (twice) and got on our bus for the 40 minute ride into town.

The first order of business after arriving at the hotel…

…just long enough to get a photo.

Then it was lunchtime (it was after 4, but our bodies only thought it was 2). We opted for the hotel’s restaurant rather than waste time searching for the perfect (Thai) restaurant. It was Amazing!

Then it was back to the room to adjust layers and we were off on a walk.
Ostensibly this was to check out eateries in the area. We did that, but also took in some of the sites.

Eventually we wound ourselves back to the hotel for a nap, waking up in time for dinner.

During our walk we had identified an interesting looking Asian fusion restaurant that seemed like it needed to be tried.
It was well worth the trial!
One of the dishes we ordered was a vegan Poke bowl. It was so good we copied down the ingredients and asked the waitress to see if the chef would share the sauce recipe. We’ll be adding this to our menu list at home.
For desert I tried a Matcha Bomb – a ball of matcha rolled in some sort of crust material and deep fried (sounds like fair food?) and drizzled with chocolate. Decadent!

After dinner we joined the locals (and a fair number of tourists) in the paseo – this time working our way north toward the harbor (and the fish market).
There are some interesting and historic buildings in this area. Tomorrow morning we have a walking tour which will no doubt add stories to the history but here are a few images from this evening.

Back at the room we did just a little unpacking, sat down to see if I could knock this out before my computer ran out of juice, and headed for bed.

Tomorrow morning starts with a walking tour at 9:00.
We’re in a very interesting part of town so it should be fun.

Till then,
R