One of My 2 Favorite Hotels in Iceland

 Hi everyone. I hope you're having a super weekend. I'm recouping after a too busy week before the next too busy week begins. Smile. Today I have an Iceland post, and I apologize as it's a bit long.

Sometimes things happen on a trip that leads to better things ahead. I had booked a ferry to Grimsey Island in the far north. It was a day trip, and we were going to see the Puffin Colony and also so we could go north of the Arctic Circle.

When I booked that trip, I knew the Ferry was under refurbishing, but it was supposed to be back up and running by the date I had booked it. Shortly before we left I received an email that said they would not be running yet since the refurbishing needed a bit more time . I decided to change some of my planned trip, including a few of our hotels.  

That actually worked out better, because my 2 favorite places to stay were ones I booked when I cancelled the other hotels after the ferry email arrived. The first of my two favorites is this hotel in the photo below.

It's Fosshotel Eastfjords.  It is in the TINY town of Faskrudsfjordur which is built right on the edge of the fjord. Our room was on the top floor with the right hand balcony.

We had  wonderful views of this fjord off our balcony.

Here's a dusky view looking up at the mountains at 12:30 in the morning. It never did get dark.

I was pleasantly pleased we had a fjord view room since I booked this hotel not all that long before we left. 

When I was booking hotels, I did not book expensive hotels. Well, in Iceland everything is expensive, but I wasn't looking for top priced hotels by far. What I did want was our own private room and our own private bathroom. I didn't want a hostel, and I didn't want to have to go down the hall for a bathroom in the middle of the night. There were a lot of hotels with shared bathrooms.

If I was staying in one place for a few days I probably would have looked for a guesthouse. However,  except for the end of our trip, we were on the road each day, and I figured a hotel would just be easier.

I booked this hotel off a few internet photos and reviews. (I did all my hotels on Booking.com just because I could keep track of where we were staying next easier that way. And I'm not being paid or promoted by Booking to mention them either.)

Here's our room. Isn't it charming? More like a bed and breakfast than a hotel. And you'll have to excuse the hubby as he was testing out the mattress. Plus he had to take a work call, even though he was supposed to be on vacation. 😒

If you look carefully you can even see a bit of the view through the curtains.

I also loved the story behind this hotel, which I didn't know about until we arrived.  These next photos are from the small museum in the hotel.

These figures are a bit creepy, but they are part of the museum.

Originally there was no town along this fjord. However, during the late 1800's up to about World War One, fishermen from France came yearly to catch cod. This became such a customary thing that when the fishermen complained about having no doctors or places for various types of healthcare, a French hospital was built on the fjord. 

After the  French fishermen left, the hospital and other buildings associated with the hospital went into disrepair. About 15 years ago it was decided to move the hospital and to rehab the living quarters of the hospitals staff in memory of these fishermen. 

The room where we stayed was part of the rehabbed hospital. This  next photo is the other building of the hotel which was located across the street from where we stayed. It is where the museum begins and also where the reception desk was. It was living quarters for some of the nurses and others who worked in the hospital. Only the top doctor had his own home.

 It was interesting that when the moved and refurbished buildings they also  built a tunnel under the road over to the  building where we stayed , and it's in that tunnel where the museum continued.

Back to the museum.

In the tunnel, they recreated the quarters where the men stayed on the ship.

And they created the ship's deck as well as this digital wave show behind the deck to demonstrate what these men dealt with while fishing in Iceland. 

And many men did die while fishing these cold waters, especially before the hospital was built. Here's a photo of a painting in the museum.

As we were driving out of town, we found the actual cemetery where the French fishermen who died were buried.  We didn't take the walk down to the waterfront, so here's a view looking down.

And the lupines in bloom were beautiful.

Looking back into the fjord and town from up near the French cemetery.

And here's a few more views in town.

Enjoy what's left of your weekend.