We arrived in Ísafjörður (I just loved saying it “issa-fyord-or”) in the morning.  Initially we didn’t have any specific plans – no excursion, no independent tour.  Since it had been easy to drive around Reykjavik, I thought maybe we’d be able to rent a car and tour the area (the actual town is very small and most of the cruise excursions involved traveling to other parts of the northwest fjords of Iceland).  We first stopped at the visitor center to see if we could maybe book a last-minute tour (bus) but they were all full.  The person at the counter suggested trying the nearby hotel as they sometimes have car rentals.  I had never really heard of this but thought it couldn’t hurt.

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