Reykjavik -
2015
Our second cruise on the Sea Adventurer finished in Reykjavik, the capital of Iceland.
After we disembarked we were taken to our guest house for the start of our 9-night IntredTravel tour of Iceland.
Reykjavik is the most northerly capital city in the world.
Hallgrimskirkja, the massive concrete Lutheran church towers over Reykjavik.
It took 34 years (1940-1974) to build.
The columns on either side of the main tower represent bassalt columns, a favourite motif of Icelandic nationalists.
On our tour later on, we saw beautiful natural bassalt columns.
Hallgrimskirkja was named after the poet, Reverend Hallgrimur Petursson, who wrote Iceland's most popular hymn book.
The baptismal font is made from Czech crystal
From the clock tower you can see that Rekkjavik is not a large city
The dark,corner-building housed our guest house room.
In the distance, our ship, the Sea Adventurer, looks small.
Out the front of Hallgrimskirkja, the statue of the Viking, Leifur Eiriksson, gazes proudly out into the distance.
He was the first European to stumble across North America (Labrador, around 1000AD).
He found the new land was full of vines and grapes and he named it Vinland.
Leif was the son of Erik the Red, the founder of the first Norse settlement in Greenland.
The statue was a gift from USA on the 1000th anniversary of the Alping (the National Assembly of Iceland).
Bold and modern, this impressive building in the centre of Reykjavík, is the City Hall.
It was opened in 1992 and is on the shore of Lake Tjörnin.
The statue of the unknown bureaucrat.
The 1994 sculpture by Magnús Tómasson depicts a man in a suit holding a briefcase, with his head and shoulders subsumed in a slab of unsculpted stone.
It was gay pride week in Reykjavik.
We visited the 871±2 Settlement Museum.
It was based around an excavated 10th century Viking house.
The information is excellently presented and is refreshingly objective.
What the house may have looked like
Ingibjörg H. Bjarnason was an Icelandic politician, suffragist, schoolteacher and gymnast.
She was the first woman to become a member of the Alping, the parliament of Iceland.
The Pearl Restaurant
This building is an exhibition centre, restaurant complex.
The 4 massive cylindrical tanks store geothermal hot water used in buildings in Reykjavik.
Views of Reykjavik from this building.
Reykjavik Wool Shop
A hand-holding couple's glove!!
Our second cruise on the Sea Adventurer finished in Reykjavik, the capital of Iceland.
After we disembarked we were taken to our guest house for the start of our 9-night IntredTravel tour of Iceland.
Reykjavik is the most northerly capital city in the world.
Hallgrimskirkja, the massive concrete Lutheran church towers over Reykjavik.
It took 34 years (1940-1974) to build.
The columns on either side of the main tower represent bassalt columns, a favourite motif of Icelandic nationalists.
On our tour later on, we saw beautiful natural bassalt columns.
Hallgrimskirkja was named after the poet, Reverend Hallgrimur Petursson, who wrote Iceland's most popular hymn book.
The baptismal font is made from Czech crystal
From the clock tower you can see that Rekkjavik is not a large city
The dark,corner-building housed our guest house room.
In the distance, our ship, the Sea Adventurer, looks small.
Out the front of Hallgrimskirkja, the statue of the Viking, Leifur Eiriksson, gazes proudly out into the distance.
He was the first European to stumble across North America (Labrador, around 1000AD).
He found the new land was full of vines and grapes and he named it Vinland.
Leif was the son of Erik the Red, the founder of the first Norse settlement in Greenland.
The statue was a gift from USA on the 1000th anniversary of the Alping (the National Assembly of Iceland).
Bold and modern, this impressive building in the centre of Reykjavík, is the City Hall.
It was opened in 1992 and is on the shore of Lake Tjörnin.
The statue of the unknown bureaucrat.
The 1994 sculpture by Magnús Tómasson depicts a man in a suit holding a briefcase, with his head and shoulders subsumed in a slab of unsculpted stone.
It was gay pride week in Reykjavik.
We visited the 871±2 Settlement Museum.
It was based around an excavated 10th century Viking house.
The information is excellently presented and is refreshingly objective.
What the house may have looked like
Ingibjörg H. Bjarnason was an Icelandic politician, suffragist, schoolteacher and gymnast.
She was the first woman to become a member of the Alping, the parliament of Iceland.
The Pearl Restaurant
This building is an exhibition centre, restaurant complex.
The 4 massive cylindrical tanks store geothermal hot water used in buildings in Reykjavik.
Views of Reykjavik from this building.
Reykjavik Wool Shop
A hand-holding couple's glove!!
