Spent the day in Akureyri where the nights are really drawing in. Looked out of my hotel window at midnight to see a glorious sunset giving the mountains on the other side of the fjord a golden glow.
Officially night is about two hours long at present , but it never gets dark. The sun just dips below the horizon for a couple of hours. On 21st June there is just 21 minutes between sunset and sunrise, and just a few kilometres north you hit the arctic circle where the sun doesn`t set. Of course it`s all balanced out in winter when it hardly gets light.
As the saying goes had all four seasons today. Glorious summer this morning and winter this afternoon. When the rain came on I retreated to the local pool. The main pool is 29°c and the hotpots around it go up to 43°c. Couldn`t stay in that one for long though. Felt like a blanched sprout.