Today was the day of the “lasts”. Getting up was a bit easier this morning, since yesterday was not as exhausting as some earlier days. But the weather was not necessarily better: still a lot of clouds and rain off and on.

After breakfast driving off to the West, coming close to the Hekla but unfortunately not being able to see it but only the lava fields before it. A small detour brought us to our “last” waterfall during this trip, again close to the hydroelectric power station we saw already yesterday.

Back to the (unpaved) main road we went through Selfoss, a very busy midsize town (we have not seen so many shops in the last weeks!), and further to the coast. because Joachim missed a turn we did not see the town Hveragerði, known for its hot springs and the greenhouses for fruit and vegetables they heat with the geothermal energy. But we had as well a first today - a cave from volcanic rock, more than 1.3 km long, but only the first part accessible without too much effort. Very unexpected for us Germans: just a simple warning not to go in without good shoes, a lamp, a hard hat and gloves. Nothing more, no fence, nothing. And here was the first (and last) opportunity for the flashlight Susanne took along all the time. And the boys ventured quite far into the cave, which still had some ice in it. Luckily we all came out safe!

A beach church and a very small church in the middle of the fields were our last churches. Rather different from the outside (compared with the turf churches we saw earlier), but equally simple inside.

Next to this church was our last solfatar field - the most active one in this area of Iceland (Krýsuvík). “Enjoy” the sulphur odor and steaming gases for a last time. For a while this smell was always linked to the feeling of warm water!

High note at the end of the day (and our trip) was the visit to the “blue lagoon”, a warm mineral bath which came into existence by accident, because the colling water from a neighboring geothermal power station was not disappearing in the porous volanic rock as expected, but formed a natural lagoon and washed minerals and salt from the rocks. In the meantime this is a major tourist attraction in the region (with corresponding prices), and supposedly very healthy for patients with skin problems (let’s see how the skin of the twins will react...). We used the annex restaurant for a nice diner after the relaxing bath, before going to our last hotel (in Vogar) before leaving tomorrow very early back to Amsterdam.