Exciting journey from Reykjavik to Akureyri

First stop at Pizza Hut, Reykjavik. Food was good and selection wider than Finland... Excellent!
We started our trip at schedule, but that was all that came from that plan... ;)

First the weather was fine. After a while we drove to a tunnel, which was going under a fjord for 200meters under the sea level. The tunnel itself was about 5,7 kilometers long.
There was nothing to see at the tunnel, so we don't include pictures from that.

After an hour first snow storm began. All snow went horisontal front of the bus and over the road.
The wind was about 24m/s strong at that time and we were almost top at a 450m high hill.
You could see only the next road markings beside the road, but not the next ones.
But we went on... "This is normal", said Jónas and kept driving... :)

And for a while, weather changed to normal snowing and the speed was again about 90km/h in the bus...

We had a stop at a middle of the trip at gasolin station and had some snacks - and of course visited toilets.
There is about 2,5 hours left to go...

But then...
1,5 hours later the snow storm hit us again - and this time it was terrible... We couldn't see anything - at all!
The pictures don't show it, what it was, but this time we didn't see even the next marking but had to go blind for some meters to see next... You shouldn't stop at this weather, because that makes accidents, said Jónas - and there was no place to stop eighther...

Co-driver at her work

The wind was even harder (later checked to be over 30m/s!!!)
And the bus stopped behind couple of trucks - completely!
There had been an accident at the road and we couldn't cross the scenery...
The rescue team had been called and was coming, but we had no information, how long would it last!
So we waited... And waited...
And then guys had to go... really had to go... at this weather!
And finally they went, first one brave one and when he was still alive to come inside the bus, then th others... They were wet and could, but excited about the experience...

We actually stood there about 30-40minutes only, but it felt like longer, when we were all tired already...
Finally the rescue team came and pull out the cars and we could move again :)
It was slow, but moving. About 10 minutes later we had crossed the mounting and were on the otherside: and the weather was fine again. "This is Iceland!", Jóna stold us...

So we were much more later at the Akureyri than planned, but in good condition even totally exhausted!
Lady Elín waited us with warm beds :D

Gula Villan, Brekkugatan

Good night!