today was a great day as well. i walked around Reykjavik and revisited many of the sites i had seen before as well as found new places to experience. i found a wonderful little restaurant called Fish & More in one of the busiest streets in the city. it is small but the fish indeed were very good. served with vegetables, and as it turns out one of the staff had learned spanish in Mexico. they were happy to be able to practice a bit. you can tell those that have learned in spain as they have a distinct accent. there seem to be quite a few tourist in the city which is not what i expected this time of year. three years a go when i was here it was not this crowded. no souvenir shopping this time, just enjoying the walk and meeting new people. will go out again a bit later to get another walk in before bed time. i am also not taking an enormous amount of pictures. just trying to enjoy it all. i saw a piece of the berlin wall today as well as the building where reagan and gorbachev met in 1986. i learned it used to be the british embassy and now possibly haunted. what was real was the wind. it was howling and apparently not as bad as it can be from what i was told. unfortunately it means that when you open your car door it can slam the car next to you if you are not careful. my friend’s car was hit quite hard by the car next to us and now there is some damage :(.

but i suddenly realized today that i dont have to check my email every ten minutes. that i dont have to expect a call from work. that i dont have to go over issues in my head and how to resolve them. it is the next step in decompression. i think it was good. just one more day before flying north.

i think i will visit that fish restaurant again tomorrow, along with the black cat, a small breakfast place close to where i stayed last time (Hotel 101).

will post some pics later of what i came across today.