Even though most Icelanders live in Reykjavík, we wanted to stay in a small town outside the city. We ended up even more remote - a 15-20 minute drive from a couple of small towns.
Our go-to town for groceries and shopping was Selfoss, with Kronan, Bonus and Netto grocery stores. It also has a little but charming downtown. In the second photo, you can see both the large hill outside town - and low-hanging clouds. The last photo here is not a stack of books, but a staircase painted like a stack of books - cute!
Hveragerði is also along Route 1. It's a smaller town - but very geothermally active. Meg and I stopped in this town last summer to shop at the Bonus foods and the excellent bakery. On this trip, we found a waterfall, a geopark where we bought eggs to cook in a small fumerole, and a long hike to a hot spring where people swim in the summer.
We were even closer to Kerid Crater, a volcanic crater lake along hwy 35. Meg and I visited it last summer, so it was neat to see how different it looked in winter. In summer, the path along the rim was slippery from scree - in winter, it was slippery with ice :).
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