I spent Saturday morning in one of the most popular local museums, Perlan. It’s a natural history museum with an ice cave, a planetarium and architecture that takes advantage of the hill top location.
There’s a coffee shop on the top level with a 360 degree view of Reykjavik.
After a lengthy visit and an iced latte, I headed back to the Hallgrimskirkja, the iconic Lutheran church. The minister provided me with some Icelandic religious history and we had a wonderful discussion about religion in modern life. My initial reaction to the architecture remains unchanged. The interior is a soft battleship grey lacking any adornments save a massive pipe organ. The purpose of a towering gothic ceiling was to provide sufficient integrity for beautiful stained glass. Structurally, the building in interesting as it’s built without any visible external buttressing.
I wandered through the streets while the sun was out. Here’s some graffiti and the entrance sign to one of Reykjavik’s more unusual museums.
Architecture, the Reykjavik opera house, and local flora
The neighborhood near our hotel had housing from rented flats to individual homes. Waterfront condos are priced at $2.4 M USD and typically purchased by foreigners
And sculptures —- more from the road later this week,
