Wednesday, March 22, 2017

Vik

Overnight snow was heavy but we were still up pre-dawn to get to the beach for (hopefully) a sunrise.  The church in Vik is famous and is photographed by just about everyone who visits the place and quite rightly, as it sits on a hill just outside the town.  I think I’m right in saying that most churches here are Lutheran and most seem to be of exactly the same design.


I was lucky as a few minutes after taking that shot, the lights were turned off.


The weather this morning was just as challenging.  Turning 180 deg from the church and the light/colour changes completely.  I quite like the blue of pre-dawn on a cloudy day but may twiddle with it later.






Once again Jo is sitting down, she seems impervious to the cold and/or wet and kindly provides a focal point.


After breakfast and a brief shopping trip to the supermarket (expensive) and an Icelandic Knitwear etc. shop (off the scale expensive) we drove up on to the cliffs for a different viewpoint and the snow continued on an off for most of the afternoon.




I think maybe this was a lighthouse but it was all closed up.



For sunset we were heading back to the beach we’d visited on arrival (with the Fulmar) but I stopped just before it at this lovely lake for sunset.