Category: Iceland

A short day today with just a few view stops before an afternoon in AKureyri, the capital of the north, Iceland’s second city. On the way in I saw my first Elf House. Apparently these are all ver Iceland provided by thoughtful citizens for the elves. Medieval Icelandic literature describes in great detail the settlement…

A long drive day today just a few short stops along the way. just a couple of stops before lunch. We had a stop at a cafe dedicated to s poet Steiner. here we tried out happy marraige cake. Vety nice it was too. On the way back to the road we stopped at one…

Suprisingly We were all ready, tents struck, breakfast eaten all cleared up snd cook tent packed to leave at 7am! We visited Arnartapi to see the basalt cliffs and the guardian of Snaefell, Barbara represented by a sculpture there. We headed north from Reykjavik to follow the west coast Sea to the left and mountains…

We survived the first night (note to self, being warm at bed time does not equate to being warm in the wee hours- do the sleeping bag zip up!). The eye mask worked well against the light night. 😃 I was excited about going off to explore Reykjavik so I headed off leaving Ashley to…

Wow, we made it! We had a long wait for our bags- we hadn’t realised there was a separate place to collect oversized bags 🤔 The weather has been kind do we got the tent up with no rain. We met the lovely team who will be looking after us and were busy cleaning the…

Here is the picture we’ve been sent of our vehicle and cook tent. We’ve made it through the traffic. Work phone at home, what we’ve forgotten to bring is forgotten. It’s a wonderful feeling of being on the brink! The chat group opened about lunch time yesterday and all of a sudden it’s real. Up…

Land of Ice and Fire (long before Game of Thrones), land of elves, Vikings, volcanos, glaciers, thermal pools, northern lights and much more. I first came across Iceland in books; books about vikings, books based on the sagas, journey to the centre of the Earth. More recently we’ve toyed with the idea of a northern…