Every time we travel, we like to try some local drinks.
Gull is Icelandic beer, made from fresh Icelandic water.
Nothing special actually, very light tasting.

Schnapps is something special for Iceland. They made many different kinds of schnapps from their local ingredients.
Above and below is Iceland local moss Schnapps.

I gotta say, I bought it and bring it home. You supposed to drink it chilled. I don’t really like it after all. It taste like seaweed strong liquor.
It is not the taste that everyone can take.

Below is Iceland Birch wood Schnapps. Because it is kind of expensive, so we are waiting for a good reason to open it.

Iceland crowberry sweet wine. It goes well with ice cream. Sweet sweet wine.

I love the Falls in Iceland. There are many of them if you look carefully while you drive down their highway.

Some of them are extremely huge.

I love this fall. You get to walk behind the fall. Almost like living in a dream world.

Perlan is a land mark of Reykjavik. It is free to go up there. You can have some coffee and light lunch there for very reasonable price.

While you are eating at Perlan, don’t forget to go out and walk around the deck. The view is very good. You get the see the city from far away.

Iceland’s delicacy, Puffin. I feel guilty to say but puffin is extremely delicious.
However, I won’t recommend to look at Puffin pictures than eat them, because they are super cute.

Below is Icelandic local meat, Lamb sandwich. It is light. Very very tasty.

If you willing to pay roughly 300 isk go to the top of the Hallgrimskirkja. This is the view you will get.
The view is absolutely breath taking.

The city is beautiful. The mountain and the lake behind the city make the city even more amazing.

I tried Absinth while I was in Prague.
The drink is full with star anise taste. If you don’t like that taste, you probably won’t like the drink much.
Below is Becherovka. Another important alcohol from Czech.
It is a wonderful tasting alcohol. You can drink it on the rock, maybe with a bit of lime juice.
Taste wonderful after dinner mid summer drink.

We arrived Reykjavik very early in the morning. We didn’t plan anything for the arrival of the day.
Therefore, our main goal was to walk around Reykjavik downtown.

This is an important land mark for the city.
It is free to enter the church.

Cost around 300 isk to go to the top of the church.

The organist was practicing when we were there.
 

• 2 sticks of butter
• 1/2 of vegetable oil
• 2 cups of sugar
• 5 eggs
• 3 cups of all purpose flour
• 1 cup of milk
• some salt
• some vanilla extract
• some baking powder

1. Separate egg white and yolks.
2. In a large metal bowl, beat egg white until fluffy.
3. In another mixing bowl, mix all together ingredients together.
4. Fold egg white carefully in to the flour mixture.
5. Pour mixture into a greased and floured loaf pan.
6. Bake 350 F for 1hr or until the fork come out of the center of the cake clean.

Top with whipped cream, fresh strawberries and chocolate sauce for added flavor.

• 1-2 slice of fine New York Strip Steaks
• some salt and pepper
• some oil

1. Preheat oven for 425F.
2. Sprinkle salt and pepper on both side of the steak.
3. Add oil to a pan. Place steak in the pan when oil is hot.
4. Fry steak about 30 sec. each side on high heat.
5. Transfer steak into oven.
6. Bake until the center of the steak is 135F for medium.
7. When cooked, allow steak to sit for 5 minutes before cutting.

Enjoy !!!

This is a quick business trip to Detroit. My hotel is at downtown Detroit.
My suggestion to visit Detroit without a car is…bring your own breakfast.
It was so hard to find breakfast around my hotel I remember.