Well, here I am back in Reykjavik, 4 months after my last visit. This time I’m on my way to Greenland, but I’ve had time to do the museums and galleries today. The City Card is great value, offering many of the city’s museums, the bus network and the splendid geothermal pools within the city.
This afternoon I visited the Culture House. I particularly enjoyed the sections on how artists have interpreted the landscape and Iceland’s active geology. As a musician, I’m already aware of Jon Leif’s monumental Geysir and Hekla. They’d be fabulous pieces for the RSNO to play.
After that I saw the settlement exhibition, which deals with the earliest settlements on this site, sometime around 871AD. A fascinating exhibition. I loved how around the walls they had a panoramic 360 view of what Reykjavik might have been like then. Certainly more peaceful than it is now!
Next up, a swim and a soak in a hot tub, I think!
I’ll squeeze a couple more exhibitions out of my 24h card tomorrow and then it’s off to Greenland. As with Torshavn in September, it looks like I’m going to be very busy up at the music school. Really looking forward to it, as many of my most enjoyable moments in the last 6 months have been working with young people.
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