Yikes!

We rode
the double
decker bus
straight
through
the last
50-minutes
of the
Hop-on/
Hop-off
Tour.







We cringed trying to hear

over the loud bus motor

as we plugged our ear phones

into the radio system

and pushed #6 for our choice

of an English explanation

about local landmarks.




We held on tightly to our seats as the driver jostled his passengers to and fro, slamming on his brakes around the city.

The narrow streets with tight corners proved a challenge.

At one point, a taxi driver drove onto the sidewalk to avoid being overrun while our bus driver made a sharp turn.

Other sights from our tour bus windows included:



pedestrians

walking

along the

shoreline

park paths,








Hallgrim's

Church

Steeple

getting

a

makeover,









a statue of Leif Eríkson, an Icelandic/
Norwegian explorer and the first European thought to have landed in North America...



(This monument – which stands in front of the church – was a gift from the United States in 1930 marking the 1000th anniversary of Iceland's parliament.)





various

boat

scenes









at

the

city's

Old

Harbor





a
famous
pictorial
collage
of
faces
on
a
city
wall,






and most strikingly –

our grinning bus driver

as we hopped off

uttering:

Yikes!

for an adventure.