Today, we visited Siglufjörður to see the Herring Era Museum (it’s closed during the winter, of course, but they open it for pre-booked groups like ours) and Hauganes to visit Elvar at the Baccalá Bar (his family business, a family-owned salted cod producer, now in its fifth generation), where Diane and I both joined the Rotten Shark Club (sorry, no photo of the initiation ceremony). Oh, and we got to see a lot of wonderful scenery.
En route to Siglufjörður
In Siglufjörður
Onward to Hauganes
Hauganes and the Baccalá Bar
Back to Akureyri
I finally got a reasonable photo of one of Akureyri’s “Stop! In the name of love” traffic lights.
We had a light dinner at Bautinn across the street from the hotel, then took a very short walk by the Akureyri Art Museum. It was closed, but there was still art on display outside.
Then it was back to the hotel to prepare for the last aurora-hunting expedition of the trip. The forecast wasn’t promising, but we went out anyway (as did almost everyone) and tried two locations. There were lots of stars, and the phone camera found a little green and pink in the sky, but our guides said that that really didn’t count as “aurora”.
Oh well – we’ll always have Paris…oops, I meant last night’s outstanding aurora.