Thursday Nothing planned for today, so Christian and I take it easy.
	Der alte Mann und das Meer
	The morning is wonderful, the sun shines and it's even possible to see the Snaefellsjoekull volcano which is 130 km away. It's the Fujijama of Iceland and "Travelling to the Centre of the World", the famous romance of Jules Verne, starts there.
	fishing	At lunch time, we go towards the harbour where we don't find dives like in Lisbon or Istanbul, but harbours are always interesting. Nobody is interested in where we go or what we do, we can move around as we want.
	There is a dry dock which - in my opinion - is relatively archaic compared to the hydraulic docks for container ships in Hamburg. The ships are still dragged ashore by rails to be repared	inside the dock
	Next to the dock, at the quay, there are four heavy trawlers one next to the other, the last veterans of the Icelandic whaling fleet. After protests of Greenpeace, whaling was stopped at the beginning of the nineties what caused bad feeling. The tradition of whaling in Iceland is 1.000 years old and the population thinks that Greenpeace chose the weakest of the three whaling nations Iceland, Norway and Japan for protests. An opinion which certainly isn't that wrong.	the last four
	At the edge of the dry dock there is another curious thing. A few years ago, an Icelander reconstructed a ship of the first settlers of Iceland, a kind of Viking ship. When he wanted to use it, he got problems with the authorities. They claimed the modern equipment of today's shipping. Satellites, radar, standardized anchor and similar things. Strange idea - a Viking ship with radar bowl on the top of the mast. Authorities forever.	At the dock - behind the vikingboat
	Tomorrow we'll join the Germans to visit the south coast - admiring glaciers. See you - Burkhard