first thing we did today, after having a breakfast, packing the stuff, checking out of the hostel, and bringing our stuff to the car, was going down to nearby beach[001-011] to see the seal colony[013-014,066-075,078-079]. there really have been a lot of the seals, lying around. and close to the colony was a huge and impressive petrified troll[004-005,040-042,044-046,048-049,055,060,065,076]. another thing i noticed was the huge amount of dead creatures like jellyfish[007-010,022-023,025-026], birds[027-032,034-037,082], and others[019,033,038-039,059]. then we got on the car and found the gas tank to be pretty empty once more. it's really hard to do a good calculation of how far you get with tank contents. but we made it to the next gas station again. and again we were really close to an empty gas tank. fully refueled we drove on to blönduós. our guidebooks said there's an extraordinary church[088-094] there, so we headed towards the big building in blönduós that had a big stone cross on the green. unfortunately the church was closed, but it really looked different on the outside from what i knew about churches. after another free coffee at N1 we headed towards akureyri[123-125]. we especially loved the heart shaped red traffic light. very, very cute. next sight we had planned to see today was goðafoss[135-161], a big waterfall. since the sun had already set and it got darker and darker we were the only ones at the waterfall. another very impressive waterfall. so loud, so full of spray, so full of power. it is said, that at this location iceland's law speaker had thrown statues of his former god into the river and the people of iceland converted to catholicism. it was already late when we drove on to húsavík. there was no HI hostel, so we read in our "lonely-planet" guidebook to find a good and cheap accommodation. we found a guesthouse in the center of a housing estate. it was run by an old couple. very nice people actually. in the garage the old man had a huge motorcycle. right next to the garage with the motorcycle was our room and the shower. pretty strange alignment of the rooms. unfortunately they had no cat there in the guesthouse.