Hello guys! What is going on? My name is Lily Monroe and you're listening to
Escort Confessions. This is the podcast about my trip to Iceland part 2. So after
I said hi to the ponies and horses, I went to the National Lake Glacier Park
where there's a biggest parking lot and you park there and there's like a bunch
of glaciers in the water. So that's one of the places I definitely recommend
going to because it's so pretty. Like I probably was there for an hour just
looking at water, looking at glaciers because before this I've never seen a
glacier in my life. So it was just really cool experience just seeing blocks of
ice in the coldest water. And you can't swim in the water because not only
you're not allowed to but you would only survive a few minutes. I'd like to put
that to the test because I I swam in Alaska in summer and the water was
below 40 degrees. So you know I like to test my limits and stuff. So yeah. So
glacier park put it on your list for the things to visit in Iceland. The drive
there from from that park to I went to Husavik because that's where they filmed
this Netflix movie with Rachel McAdams and Will Ferrell. It's called Eurovision
Song Contest. It's really funny and Eurovision is a national competition in
Europe. It's a singing competition. I'm sure you guys Americans have heard of
it because it's really popular. They don't have that in America because it's
only European thing and Iceland is part of Europe. So and it's so funny. It's no
no no it's not even funny. It's so sad because Iceland is the only country in
the northern hemisphere that did not win Eurovision. And it sucks. I'm gonna be
rooting for them every year until they win. So anyways from the glacier park
where I drove to Husavik. I know it's such a beautiful drive. It's like there's
mountains on one side, there's ocean on the other. It's just I can't describe it
like you just have to have to be there to experience it. And it's you're all
alone in the wild. You don't know if you're gonna have enough gas to go to
the next spot. So basically I filled up every chance I could get and it's always
good to fill up when you have half a tank of gas because it's it's better
apparently. I can't remember why but it's better. Something to do with gasoline and
make sure and stuff like that. So I did stop in the town of Hafen. It's on the
seaside. Really cute town, really small. Everybody knows each other. Oh yeah if
you are traveling I always recommend going grocery shopping because it's you
get to save a lot of money. Because if you go out to restaurants it's like it's
I mean restaurants like they're not overpriced per se but you are paying for
cooks to prep your meal for the waiters for the hostess and you know stuff like
that. So always go grocery shopping and yeah you never know what you can find in
grocery stores when you're traveling. So stayed in town of Hafen and ta-ta-ta-ta
what else? What else? What else? And on the next day I got to Husavik and visited
a few film locations, visited the the only your vision museum in the world and
the guy there was super nice he was super helpful also took a bunch of
selfies. Oh interesting fact they have like a rainbow road in the town of they
have ran Rainbow Road in the town of Akureyri and Rihavik. So I really liked
the town of Akureyri more than I liked Husavik because Husavik is so small but
it's they have really nice marina but Akureyri they have really nice downtown
and it's bigger and it's just oh indescribable how pretty it is and I
felt like I was really in Europe because of all the Icelandic language around me
and the names of the stores and just just different vibe and it's I don't
know how to describe it but I highly recommend visiting town of Akureyri. Oh
and on the way there I got into a snowstorm so on both sides of me there
was white snow I'm on like the mountains and I'm like I'm in danger I don't know if I'm
gonna make it to the next town but I did you know obviously yeah town of Akureyri
definitely visited they from there to Rihavik it was about five hours but on
the way to Rihavik I stopped at in this town called Hvanneri they have the
Rockin Troll restaurant and hotel and it's so cute because so trolls and elves
are part of Icelandic culture and if you ask a native about elves and trolls
they'll be like oh I don't really believe in them but I wouldn't mess mess
with them either so I'm like oh okay cool cool yeah so I highly recommend
going to Rockin Troll Hotel it's it's I mean it's not like hotel hotel but like
you can stay in like those little cabins and there's like normal cabins and they
have like troll statues and troll history and they sell books about trolls
and the hosts are absolutely wonderful and so I stayed there and then the next
day I drove to Rihavik and visited downtown oh and they have this so their
traditional food is lamp soup meat soup and fermented shark and this ice cream
and and hot dog I said the hot dog and ice cream kind of reminded me of chocolate
chip cookies if it was made into ice cream because you can just eat it I
don't I don't know how to explain it but and with fermented shark you have to
take a shot right after which I did not do because I don't drink so basically
like I and and it comes in like little cubes and the only place to get it is
called Cafe Loki in Rihavik so basically I I was at the restaurant with a friend
and me new friend that I made so I was at the restaurant and I took little cubes
and started chewing on them for five seconds and then the taste of nail
polish remover was in my mouth and I'm like what is going on what is this is
this normal it's supposed to be that way weird interesting amazing experience so
after that I'm like I'm not eating shark again it's I mean it tasted like fish
like toony smell I mean taste and then after that nail polish remover is the
only thing that I could think of so very interesting oh and the yogurt and the
cakes uh I I have sweet tooth so all of their desserts were delicacy to me and
the food there is so good it tastes like food it does not taste like plastic like
in America if you know what I mean yeah we could be friends we can definitely be
friends yeah cuz like I feel like a lot of American food it tastes like plastic
because it's made out of plastic sometimes so yeah but I signed it for
this really good really delicious really tasty they do not put a lot of sauces
they just have like a little bit of salt and olive oil in their salads but they
don't really do the whole condiments situation so so there's that um yeah and
in the Havik there's this biggest church what is it called okay it's called
Hallgrimskirke yeah something like that you will see if you get through Havik you
will see it in the distance it's really tall um it's not the prettiest church
I've seen I mean from the outside it looks pretty cool but inside it's all
gray a lot of Icelandic people I don't know they like the color of gray they're
building things are gray and like I don't know if it was snowing and I was
walking downtown I would feel like I'm in Soviet Union or something I mean it's
still Europe so yeah yeah but it was definitely interesting trip I would
definitely recommend going to Havik checking out the Rainbow Road checking
out downtown a lot of souvenir shops like one on every corner pretty much and
gosh there's so many things out there to check out and for me a week was not
enough I felt like I could have gone for nine days or ten days instead but there's
a lot of whale watching down there and you can go into ice cave I believe and
if you get a chance definitely try the fermented shark and other local national
traditional cuisines so yeah that was my trip and once again travel while you can
come hang out with me email me with any questions that you guys might have about
either my job you know as a spicy accountant or about travel but yeah thank
you so much for tuning in today and listening to me to my voice my name is
Lily Monroe and I will talk to you guys next time