The Nordic Lands - Day Four

Serene

I feel like the world is very big right now, full of possibilities and things I can experience if I manage to get myself in the right places.

'We notice a sort of summer festival'

WE'RE currently sat in an 'elf garden' in Hafnarfjordur, which is a small park so beautifully landscaped that it seems to go on forever. There are endless forks in the paths, and steps that lead up and behind hills and rocks and ponds and waterfalls. We've found a grassy hillock which is under the sun and shielded by the wind, and are using it to sprawl over and read books about music. Even though it's June, I'm warm enough to be in a t-shirt for the first time since I've arrived here.

WE walk slowly along the harbour, squinting against the various shades of bright blue lit up by the low sun. As we scramble over rusting metal, we notice a sort of summer festival. There are children kayaking in the bay, a zipwire across the water made of a line and a rubber ring, a blow up slide that sends people into the (presumably still freezing (Ellie looks alarmed)) sea, and a stage of live music. People are singing along as they pass. We spend a while sitting on an extremely quiet part of the rocky shore , looking down at the gently lapping water. Bombay Blue is playing in my mind.

'An extremely quiet part of the rocky shore'