If, by any chance, you’ve been reading along with this travelogue series in sequence and haven’t just found yourself on this Icelandic cruise page because of it’s reference to the town of Grundarfjörður then you’ll know that we spent the day on an excursion taking us around a handful of the various scenic locations on the Snæfellsnes Peninsula, culminating in a clifftop walk to see the impressive rock formations along the coast at Arnarstapi.
At the conclusion of this tour we were brought back to Grundarfjörður, and it had been our intention, because we had the time for it, to have a walk into town and across to Kirkjufell for some photos of what is often claimed to be Iceland’s most photographed mountain thanks in no small part to it featuring in some fantasy programme we never got the chance to see when it was first released, then got put off by everyone claiming it was excellent, then got put off more by everyone claiming the ending was terrible, and so decided to never watch.
However, regular readers of these travel posts – and counting me, that’s one of us – will know that my wife has on occasion injured herself either on her hip or knee or ankle, often causing her to fall or twist something even more. Basically, one of her legs has been trying to kill her for years and we keep putting off taking her to see a priest to get the demon inside exorcised. She hadn’t fallen on this day’s tour, but some of the walking had been on very uneven ground (or up uneven rock steps in the case of the first stop of the day at Djúpalónssandur Black Sand Beach) and it had aggravated existing problems.
“You can go off on your own,” she said.
“I could,” I agreed, “but the trolls might get me. Can’t go without my wingman. Wingwoman.”
“Are you calling me an old bat?”
It’s not like there won’t be opportunities to return to the country in the future. Including this cruise, this was our third time in Iceland, it’s our favourite country in Europe, and it won’t take much to get us back there. So I decided to simply hop back on board Sky Princess and enjoy some of the views of the spectacular landscapes in this part of the world from our balcony and the top deck of the ship before we sailed away in the evening.
The waterfall you can see in the photo below is Grundarfoss, one of Iceland’s tallest waterfalls with a drop of seventy metres. We were quite some distance away on the ship but it was still an impressive sight.
The evening aboard the cruise ship was much like most others. We had a few pre-dinner drinks first alone, then with our friends on the cruise, and we all joined together to not only take part in the trivia but win it too. One day Princess Cruises might offer up decent prizes, but not on this day.
And to finish off, some photos of the dinner on Sky Princess in the main dining room, because you wouldn’t believe how much some people like to see pictures of it. Food was of a great quality and we had a wonderful table for the last of the time in port in Grundarfjörður.
While I didn’t take any photos of any drinks I can assure you that they were nevertheless consumed.
In the next post in this 2022 Sky Princess Norway and Iceland cruise series we’ll arrive at the final port in Iceland and the country’s capital, Reykjavík. With this being our third time to the city we wouldn’t be going on any excursions but we ended up finding some awesome pieces of public art and finally visiting the punk museum.