A day in Reykjavik

After getting off of the airplane, we made our way to Reykjavik's center to meet up with our contact who was going to rent us the bikes and tell us about our 4 day journey around the golden circle in Iceland.  It took us a long time to get settled in, but after we had the bikes, we were free to bike around Reykjavik.  Luckily, since it gets dark at never, we had plenty of daylight to see some of the city.  The highlights were:

• Going to a museum where the oldest settlement in Iceland was actually uncovered.  Iceland is one of the few places originally discovered by Europeans, and therefore had a shorter anthropological history than the rest of the places I have traveled. 
• Meeting up with some friends from my Turkey trip about 4 years ago.  We met some Icelanders back then and managed to stay in touch over the years (or rather recently catch up).  So, we met up with them had some dinner, which was very nice. 
• Riding to the nearby lighthouse and seeing the late night sun from the end of the peninsula.  

By the time we went to bed, we had been up for over 30 hrs.