Our land of lakes forever fair below blue mountain summits, of swans, of salmon leaping where the silver water plummets, of glaciers swelling broad and bare above earth’s fiery sinews — the Lord pour out his largess there as long as earth continues!
Jónas Hallgrímsson
When we arrived at the Reykjavik airport it was a drab, rainy, day which fortunately was an exception to the magnificent, sunny, weather that graced our entire circumnavigation of Iceland.
After a city tour shortened by the inability to visit the National Museum due to COVID-19 restrictions, we boarded our home away from home, the National Geographic Explorer, which had previously taken us to Antarctica, the Falklands, South Georgia and the British Isles.
