Where the old Things were

July 5th. We picked up our mighty Toyota Avensis wagon and headed out on the ringroad. First stop: Thingvellir, where the Althings were held--the parliamentary meetings, starting in 930 AD.
The valley is subsiding because it's where North American and European tectonic plates are moving apart. Hence these big rifts. The chieftans set up camp sites up here for the Althing, for two weeks each summer.