Heather had started feeling a bit sick yesterday, and was worse this morning. Probably we had caught whatever was going around with the groups in our hotel in Vík, Heather worse than me.
We emailed the Lava Tunnel folks to let them know we wouldn't be joining the lava excursion. It was too late to cancel but they offered that we could rebook at no cost, at any point in the next five years, which was very nice of them. So if we get back to Iceland for a summer trip based out of Akureyri, we can rebook the lava tunnel excursion.
After breakfast, we packed up and drove back to Reykjavík. The route took us through Thingvellir NP so we had another view of the park. There was lots of traffic on the road heading out from Reykjavík to the Golden Cirle sites, a continuous stream of cars, campervans and buses.
We were able to get early check-in at the Skuggi Hotel, but only at 1pm. That was enough time to walk over to Hlemmur Mathöll (food hall) and grab some lunch. We both had phở at Báhn Mí, it was pretty good given the ingredient options in Iceland. We're spoiled with the excellent Vietnamese restaurants in our neighbourhood back home.
We got back to the Skuggi and checked in, and we both promptly fell asleep mid-afternoon. I got up around dinner and went back to the food hall for dinner at Kröst, it was excellent.
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The next morning we stayed until checkout and then drove back to the airport. The car return at Europcar was easy -- just dropped off the key and walked over to the terminal. It was different seeing the airport during the day -- when we arrived it was before sunrise and we were pretty tired. It's a rather large airport!
Luckily we had booked business and were able to use the lounge. It's one of the more pleasant lounges we've been through. Got some chaise-lounge type seats facing the runways, and rested until our flight at 5pm.
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