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14.10.2012 11:58

A very good Saturday

Yesterdaymorning we decided to go to both horse round-ups in Eyjafjörður. The first one, Þverárétt, started at 10 o'clock so we had to get up early, call Bjössi and Maggi to ask if they'd like to join us, pick them up, feed our horses in Saltvík and drive to Eyjafjörður.

We had wonderful weather, sunshine, no wind and up to 12 degrees. When we arrived in Þverárétt, the sorting already had started, but not too long ago. We found ourselves a good place to watch and started discussing the different horses and horsecolours. There were quite a few different colours, from the basic ones to basic and spotted, duncolours, cremecolours (Palomino, Buckskin and Smokey Black), Splashed White horses and at least two Cremellos/Perlinos. So something for every taste.

After a very quick lunch we headed to Melgerðismélarrétt, which started at 1 o'clock. There were not as many horses and maybe less colours, but I liked the horses a bit better. Ingólfur was getting a bit cold, so he decided to join the action a bit and offered Jonas, the farmer at Litli-Garður, his help. I managed to take a few pics when he was catching one of the foals that didn't want to follow it's mum into the right area.

On our way back we first stopped at Haga to have a look at our foals and then in Viðiholt to check out Prins, Bjössi's son of our Farsæll.

We were so lucky to get an invitation for dinner and headed to Berglind and Vignir's place after a very quick shower. The food was delicious and afterwards we tried the Icelandic snaps Birkir, which is made out of birch. Birkir has a sister called Björk, which is a liqueur made out of birch. We really can recommend both of them!

Then it was time to take a walk to Gamli Baukur to take part in the pub quiz. On the way we watched the most beautiful Northern Lights, so whoever wants to see really powerful, moving and colourchangeing Northern Lights should come to Iceland this winter!

We had a good time at the quiz and managed to end in 3rd place, with 38,5 points out of 43. The winner had 41, but I'm not sure if he didn't use a smartphone...

All in all we had a wonderful Saturday! Gonna put in some pics.