Friday, June 27. Eskifjordur
After the ship had moored at the pier, we set out in five coaches to Vok, about 45 minutes away, which was a thermal spa complex. We stopped on route at a point along the loch for a photo op.
The thermal spring complex was remarkably well run with state of the art technology. We each had a rubber wristband with built in electronics, which let us into the complex, enabled us to chose and lock our locker, buy drinks, pay by Credit Card, and exit once we had paid.
There were four pools two of them at about 35° and then one at 41 and one at 43 we enjoyed the first for some time and had a delicious avocado and ginger shake and a yogurt shake there which turned out to be very reasonably priced just over €5 each. Then we progressed to the other pools and David even plunged into the lake at 10°, no mean feat but then his feet suffered as a result.
We stayed at the complex for at least two hours arriving back at the ship at 12:45 pm for lunch,
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We went to a lecture by Nikolai on Galapagos then we went for a walk around the town by ourselves which was very pleasant, visiting the museum which house artifacts from the late 1800s of life in the town, many of them connected with fishing but also such things as dentist chairs and doctors consulting rooms
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After tea we had another briefing by Werner on what he and the captain had decided was the safest way of riding out the oncoming storm. The result was that we would have another morning in Iceland before one whole day and two half days at sea before arriving at Iona on the afternoon of June 30. Thus we missed out going to Orkney and also to my favourite, Lunga island.
Later on the ships, officers appeared in the panorama lounge for drinks and caviar were served. No treat to either of us but we had a nice chat with the hotel director and then a very short one with the captain. We dined in the Terrassa and then went back to the Panorama Lounge to see how the bingo, which has appeared on the daily schedule, would be conducted. This after an assurance from Conrad that that would be no bingo aboard an expedition ship ever again. But it turned out that this must have been sanctioned by Silversea as there was a television screen with it on. There were probably 30 to 40 people playing it and it seemed remarkably stupid to us.
We enjoyed cocktail and canopy outside of the panorama lounge in brilliant sunshine but then a thick fog came in , and we had to withdraw inside.
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