{"id":2835,"date":"2015-02-24T07:32:03","date_gmt":"2015-02-24T15:32:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/?p=2835"},"modified":"2019-08-28T13:42:37","modified_gmt":"2019-08-28T21:42:37","slug":"iceland-day-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/?p=2835","title":{"rendered":"Iceland Day 2: Horsing Around on Thin Ice"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

After a few wrong turns on icy roads we made it to Eldhestar horse farm. We suited up in the giant riding outfits and got on the horses in the biting cold.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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what cold? A lot of warmth here…<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Most of the ride was just through the field near the farm. It would normally have not been very exciting, but getting bounced around by a horse at below zero centigrade and twenty mile an hour winds was quickly too much for me. We had ordered all day tours, but I gave up at lunch time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ironically the lunch included with the horse ride was much better than Cafe Loki. Eldhestar’s meat soup was actually rich and filled with spices tasting German. Cafe Loki’s meat soup was just a bland broth with a little meat and a lot of potatoes. The meat took center stage at Eldhestar and it was delicious. Also available was a hot (and good!) Tomato soup, breads, cheeses and a herring curry. I contented myself with a makeshift grilled cheese sandwich. Hot chocolate and cookies were available to wash it all down.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I took a much welcome sit in the hotel lounge while Sam braved the wind again to spend the afternoon with her spirit animals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Apparently Sam’s love for horses went unrequited. Her horse threw her off in the afternoon and they forced her to sign a release that she wasn’t hurt. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

After leaving the horse farm we went to nearby Kerid<\/a>, which is a volcanic crater, filled with ice in the winter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I swear the ice cracked BEFORE I stepped on it!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

After that we went to Selfoss<\/a> to get more hot dogs. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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As we drove back to Reykjavik the sun set and we tried to take photos of the Hallgr\u00edmskirkja church at night, but there were too many locals and tourists to get much of anything good. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Then we headed to the ocean to see the famous viking boat statue.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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After a few wrong turns on icy roads we made it to Eldhestar horse farm. We suited up in the giant riding outfits and got on the horses in the biting cold. Most of the ride was just through the field near the farm. It would normally have not been very exciting, but getting bounced […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":99,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2835","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2835","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/99"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2835"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2835\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4590,"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2835\/revisions\/4590"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}