July 26th 0830GMT

65 15.9N 013 59.5W

Whoops, thought I’d already sent an arrival post – must have been the rum in the anchor drop. Anyway, we arrived in Seydisfjiordur at 1630 on the 24th to find a very pleasant customs lady waiting on the fishing to greet us with surprisingly little paper work. We had forwarded our details by email beforehand and that was undoubtedly appreciated. The dock is a bit rough with plenty of rusty bits and some well worn tyres but more than adequate for our needs. A crew of musicians from the Emerald isle were already alongside and soon after Becca Boo arrived, so there was plenty of chat. The sun shone late into the evening casting long vivid shadows over the surrounding peaks – but overnight the mist rolled back in and by dawn we couldn’t see the far side of the fjord. The town is small and Nordic neat with the usual supermarket, swimming pool and a pub. Yesterday, on the way to the pool, we stopped off at a gift shop and Fi admired an Icelandic wool beany hat – cost 35 pounds. Joe and Flynn set off in the mist to climb one of the 7 peaks surrounding he anchorage and got a good way up before the magnetic attraction of dinner and a swim in the pool brought them back down. So we seem to be done here and are about to head off to Vopnafjordur 60nm north.