Apparently, there is more snow this summer than in the last 30 years....it's bloody cold!!!
We pitched our tents in an area called 'Hidarendi' at the foot of some snow covered hills by a river. We executed the task by ourselves to varying degrees of success. I can't pronounce the name of the cook (let alone spell it, plus he is literally 7 foot tall, will send comparative photo shortly), anyway, he made us warming vegetable soup and cod for dinner then gave us the night off from 'washing up the plates in the freezing cold river' duty....phew! Nobody thought to bring their marigolds!
Peter our Icelandic guide gave us our briefing for the next day. We need layers as the weather is changeable (ya think?).
A strange night . It was hard to sleep with the rain beating down on our tents with the cold and the light! We had 3-4 hours sleep average and lots of runny noses. Did we mention that it's unusually cold here for this time of year??? Too cold to get up in the night and go to the loo which didn't help!
Finally its time to get up and ready for the long day ahead - I can't really say at dawn cos there is none here - it stays consistently light at night!
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