We flew to Egilsstaðir on Friday with grand plans of spending the weekend hiking and exploring the towns of East Iceland. As you can see in the below photos I took with my phone, weather conditions weren’t exactly ideal for either of those activities. It was still pretty great though.

Fagridalur

Fagridalur

The boat tub in Mjóeyri

Enjoying the beach at Mjóeyri

Something cold.

Lagarfljót, home to the mythical lake monster.

On the road, somewhere…

Litlanesfoss, frozen.

Litlanesfoss, still frozen.

Fagridalur

Fagridalur, the whiteout edition.

Mjóeyri

A brief moment of nice weather in Egilsstaðir

Mjóeyri

Eskifjörður

Eskifjörður

Eskifjörður

Eskifjörður

Eskifjörður, the “shoppa”

Eskifjörður

Eskifjörður

An Eskifjörður local

Fagridalur, abandoned car #1

Fagridalur, abandoned car #2

Fagridalur, abandoned car #3

Egilsstaðir

Word to the wise: don’t try to wake up in Eskifjörður and make it back to the States in the same day, even in late April. It may be summer in Iceland, but…