after a stop in helsinki (+1 hour) and all together eight hours of travelling, we - ninsti [33] and me - arrived at kevlavik international airport in iceland (-2 hours) at around 17:00 o'clock. there we fetched our car from the car-rental desk and packed our stuff into a lovely little golden toyota yaris. ninsti totally liked the colour, i would have preferred black i guess. since the journey so far was pretty strenuous and we didn't get any sleep on the train from vienna/linz to munich because of totally uncomfortable seats in the compartment we decided to go to njarðvík[01-04] and get a hostel there to get some decent sleep. the reception of the hostel was closed, but there was a phone next to it with a button labeled "reception", which automagically dials some number. on the other end of the line a lady was telling us we can have room number eight, she will be at the hostel shortly. great. so we put our stuff into room number eight, grabbed our cameras and were strolling around the harbour[05-47], which is just opposite the hostel, and njarðvík city[48-60]. later the lady showed up at the reception and convinced us to get a hostelling-international membership, since there are about 36 hostels all over the island and as a member you get rooms cheaper. so we bought it and already got our first discount on the first room. nice. the room was fine and we both went to bed pretty early. after 15 years i'm back again to iceland. i wonder how much it had changed...