Approaching Iceland

(Excerpts from Ship's Librarian)
The seas calmed down last night. We are about 200 hundred miles south east of Iceland and will be there sometime tomorrow, June 14. We've already entered the "land of the midnight sun". Last night the sun went down after midnight and rose this morning at about 3:30! The days will get even longer the further north we
travel and the closer we get to the summer solstice. It was freaky
getting out of the Library after my shift ended at 23:00 and the sky was
still bright.

They are arranging tours of Iceland for us. There's going to be a trip to
the Blue Lagoon which is the world's largest hot tub. It is a
geothermally fed pool that can hold about 1,000 people. There is also
supposed to be a whole Iceland tour to take us to the glaciers, geysers
and waterfalls that the country is noted for. Another tour is a
whitewater rafting expedition. There will also be plenty to see in the
city of Reykjavik within walking distance of our dock.

Rumor is we are staying in Iceland an extra day because the 17th, the day
we were going to leave, is their Independence Day. It is supposed to be
one big party. If so, we will take a day off our next port which has
changed from Kiel, Germany to Belfast, Northern Ireland instead.