Days 4 and 5 have been very relaxed and spent in and around Reykjavik. There were a few things, like the cat cafe, Phallological museum and Nautholsvik (geothermal beach) around town we wanted to visit.

We had a full day today! Lots of waterfalls, rainbows + a beach! From Instagram and travel blogs, I had a few waterfall locations I knew I wanted to go to. There's also a little town named Vik that has a black sand beach, Reynisfjara, nearby that I wanted to visit.

Today we decided to venture out to the Golden Circle, which is a route between multiple stopping points - Þingvellir national park, Gullfoss falls and a geyser geothermal area. It was a little under 2 hours of a drive from our airbnb right outside of downtown Reykjavik and the scenery the whole time is ever-changing between mountains, little towns and rocky flatlands. 

Wow, the time is finally here! I'm in Iceland and we've (we being boyfriend Chris and I) navigated smoothly from the airport which included picking up the car rental and finding our Airbnb. We took off from Tampa on Tuesday, landed in Cincinnati around 6PM where we camped out in the airport until our flight to Iceland took off at 1AM.

Another way you can find out in real time what life is like where you're going is by using Snapchat! If you pinch your fingers on the opening camera screen in the app, it takes you to the Map. You can watch stories from all around the world - so scroll to your destination, look for the blue glowing circles that indicate there is something there to watch, and voila! Real time, real people, real life footage of the area.

None of us had been abroad, and February, our departure date, finally came after some searching on Google and using Duolingo to try to learn the language basics. We were going to have a rental car, two hotels and free range to do whatever we wanted.