Our plan was to see seals at a seal breeding colony, visit the farm where the murders in the book Burial Rites took place and then to drive down to the Snæfellnes peninsula. We missed the turn off for the seal colony but instead went to Hvammstangi, the seal centre of Iceland. We stopped in a small coffee shop where we were told the seal breeding colony is on the other side of the peninsula. We knew that. Then we asked about the farm. The man serving the coffee was the GREAT GRANDSON of the man who dug up the bodies of Agnes and the other executed person and dragged them by horse to the farm at Illugastaðir to rebury them at a church! We felt like we had met Agnes and so skipped the extra hour of driving up to the farm.
This was a long driving day so we decided to take a short cut. We veered off the Ring Road and ventured on side roads. We then drove 120km on gravel roads in the middle of nowhere to get to Stykkish, a small town on the Snæfellnes peninsula where the ferry leaves for the West Fjords. Here is a picture of us at the windy lookout:
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