Our day with no firm plan in Iceland’s capital, Reykjavík, had included an awful lot of public art sculptures and a visit to the excellent Icelandic Punk Museum which meant that our desire to experience cultural elements from the visit had been more than satisfied. In addition, we’d done a lot of walking and got a lot of fresh air, so all this mounted up to meaning a nice reward of a drink or two in the city couldn’t be argued with. We’d already had one earlier at a bar we knew from previous visits to the country, but we’d spotted another one that specialised in craft ale pretty much on the direct route towards the cruise port (handy!) so headed that way.
Time for a few photos of the centre of Reykjavík first, though, and likely one of the most-taken shots you’ll find from the city is at what’s known as Rainbow Street with its view up the hill towards Hallgrímskirkja.
If you’re walking through this part of Reykjavík then you’re going to see a lot of street art around. It was good to see some new pieces but also some familiar pieces from the visits we’ve had to Iceland before.
The craft ale bar we headed for was called Microbar Reykjavík. If you like clean, bright, airy, modern-looking bars then you’ll like the look of this place. To be brutally honest, the style wasn’t quite to my taste, feeling a little cold and socially-distant in a country that already has its fair share of those attributes, but the style is a very distant secondary concern to the ales on offer and in this respect we liked Microbar a lot, mostly thanks to how different some of the ales on offer were. You can see the menu and pricing below as well as a selection of drinks we tried just to see the different beer styles available.
Leaving ourselves plenty of time to head back to the ship at a sensible pace we then started the walk back along the northern shoreline of Reykjavík once more; a lot of the route was identical – of course – but we veered off a little towards the end for a more direct path to the ship so skipped heading past the Recycled House and the Sigurjón Ólafsson sculptures in Laugarnes, which was probably for the best as I’d have been sorely tempted to take more pictures and risk getting the look from my wife.
I wish I’d taken a closer look at the sculpture or monument or just bit of industrial construction left over and mounted in Laugarnes in the photo below as we neared the port because the look of it really appeals to me. Sadly, I don’t know anything about it.
A look around the very small gift shop at the port and we boarded Sky Princess for the last time on this cruise.
We didn’t see much of the sail away from the final port of call on this 2022 Norway and Iceland cruise because all that fresh air and that bit of drinking in Iceland’s capital convinced us having an early dinner might be sensible. People who like to search for cruise information like to know about the food on cruise ships and that’s why all us cruise bloggers take photos of what we’re eating. We don’t want to. We’re doing it for you. And do we ever get thanked?
The sea off the coast of Iceland as Sky Princess cruised away was ridiculously calm but the mostly overcast conditions didn’t lend themselves to the most colourful of photographic opportunities after dinner. We did have some minor excitement when we saw some volcanic steam vents along the Icelandic coastline, though.
Evening aboard the cruise ship followed the usual pattern of some drinks late into the night in first the Take Five jazz lounge and then the Vista Lounge.
In the final couple of posts in this cruise travelogue series we’ll complete our time aboard Sky Princess sailing to Norway then around Iceland with a couple of sea days. Expect more photos of the ship and the food we ate on Sky Princess to round off this very enjoyable cruise.