report from the interior: A day of rest in Reykjavik

After sleeping for 10 hours (a record for me!) I woke up to sunny skies and mild temps. You can never tell about the weather here—they say it snowed last week, and the mountaintops are still white. I had planned to return to the city flea market to look for old maps, but today is a holiday and it was closed, so I went for 2 glorious long walks. The first was out past Reykjavik's Ráðhús, or city hall, and it's "pond". Like many things in Iceland, City Hall is surprisingly small. As seems to be the case on any sunny day, everyone was out in the sun feeding ducks and drinking coffee. (Decaf is not favored here, and I could not find it in any grocery store or in my favorite coffeehouse, finally found a bag to buy in the cafe at the National Museum). After circling back to my guesthouse for lunch, I spent the afternoon walking past the harbor and along the water for a couple of miles.