Volcano, trollbread and a day is not enough for Snaefellsnes

Over night the weather changed and we were everything else than in a hurry this morning. After telling some children's book still in the bed the kids highly appreciated the Crepes for breakfast and we left the cottage short before midday in direction Snaefellsjökull.

Planned first stop was Anarstapi so we took the 574 to cross the peninsula. A first kids highlight as the road had a first unpaved section. 
We parents are often a bit spontaneous, so we ended up at Budir as the first stop. The drizzling rain couldn't stop us to explore the Budhraun lava field and searching for possible homes of the elves.

Wet and a bit hungry we continued to Anarstapi with its magnificent walking trails along the shore. But caution, the Krya (arctic tern) defends its territory during breading and overfly your head quite close. 

In a cafe - to warm up after the walk in the drizzle - it's time for another story. Our travel guide "Iceland for kids" informs us about Trolls and their favorite meal trollbread - sliced stones as found in the basalt parts of the countryside. And now we discovered many petrified Trolls - showing up their heads out of the sea or grabbing trollbread. 

At Malariff we got fascinated by the different types of Lava. A brusque surface passes over to a shore with round pebbles. The ideal place to spent hours with the boys throwing stones into the water, searching for especially smooth pebbles and listening the sound of the gravels moved by the rhythm of the sea. 

Get touched by these small things the evening had come and we headed home. In the backpack another bucket list to see for a next time... and due to the cloudy weather the Snaefelsnessjökull hasn't disclosed its beauty. Our finding: one day is not enough for Snaefellsnes peninsula. Still having explored all these small little things not written in a travel guide is much more valuable than rushing from one sightseeing spot to a next one.