Huffin' and puffin

After the cave...

The walking tour. Finally. Was fine. Good to see notable landmarks, though I still managed to miss one or two. But the weather was fantastic, the photo ops were solid and my cough was only moderately bad.

That night I went back to Icelandic Bar to try again with the whole food thing. Kitchen is abierto! Rather than a full meal I order a few little apps. They come in jars. Seriously. A small jar of food. Good stuff.

There was a cheese and grapes one that was de-lish. There was some other one I'm forgetting that may or may not have been fine.

And there was puffin. The bird.

I figured I'd try one crazy local dish, so puffin it is. (No whale, no shark -- just the bird, please.) Had a few bites ... not bad. Not bad at all. Tastes familiar. Can't quite place it ... maybe roast beef?

Not thin-sliced for sandwich kind, but rather more formal dinner kind. Funny because I haven't had roast beef for 4-5 years, so maybe I'm remembering it wrong. But it's not too far off. Tasty.

So for those non-red meat eaters who miss it, chow down on some puffin! And try not to think about how cute they are. 

I lost my extensive notes for this part of the day. Surely I had one or two smarmy comments or plays on words to share. Oh well. I think that was pretty much it for that day, anyway. Had to be up crazy early to make it to airport for early flight to Helsinki.

Ke-flay-vik!

Oh, the Pearl. It's a dome-like structure sitting atop a bunch of water tanks. Restaurant, cafe, museum and such inside. And a lovely view of the city. I went up there. It was cold. But I took some pictures. Most of which came out w/regular camera, not iphone. So you'll just have to believe me that they were groovy. 

They cite a bunch of best-in-world lists in saying it's one of the best scenic restaurants in the world. I think it revolves. The restaurant, I mean. Can assert with more certainty that the world also revolves. 

And thus concludes Iceland! My visit, anyway. Reasonably sure the country still exists.

Might go back someday -- more to see from a ride around island/nature perspective. Maybe I'll take a tractor tour.

Or just a tractor.

(pics below: Puffin, lovely day, Pearl. Possibly in that order. But actually not. Blogger fighting me on formatting. Letting it win this round... for now.)