Cruise Day 12 - Disembarkation and Iceland On Our Own

With great reluctance, we woke up on our last day and got ready to get off the ship.

We had chosen one of the latest times to depart, as our hotel in Reykjavik wouldn't be doing check-ins until 11:00 am anyways.

We ended up having breakfast in the local bar as that was the only place still serving breakfast.  Apparently we missed getting our last breakfast in at Hudson's by a matter of minutes as they had stopped serving.

Having decided there was no way we could stowaway for another cruise, we disembarked at our appointed time after breakfast, entered the terminal and picked up our luggage.

We then found ourselves in a very long line for a taxi to the city center. 

Eventually, we got a taxi, driven by a very amiable fellow named Jens. He gave us some details as we drove to our hotel.  Very nice guy and we arranged with him for a pickup at the hotel for our departure in a couple days.

We got to the hotel too early to formally check in so stored our luggage in their storage room and decided to walk to downtown Reykjavik.

 Reykjavik is a very nice and quite walk-able small city.

We passed by some neat street art:

We then headed down the main drag

The main street was car-free and had a "red carpet" out for pedestrians.

Lots of shopping, including a rather famous (and pricey) watch shop.

The raincoat store beside the watch shop had a neat door sign, and offered neat belts made from watch straps from next door - pretty much infinitely adjustable, and always in time to keep your pants up.

 

All this strolling around built up an appetite, so we stopped and sat outside at Forsettin Cafe to get a bite to eat.

I had a local Boli beer to go with a traditional Icelandic Cod Stew which we shared around along with some amazingly done Salmon and some other great little bites.

That sure hit the spot, and we then went for more of a walk around. and after wandering the area and checking more stores out, we walked back to the hotel and got all checked in.

We then all had a power nap and then went out a wandering yet again, as we later had a rendezvous that evening for our next adventure.