This was THE day - snowmobiling on the Vatnajokull glacier outside Reykjavik. Again, this was something I had done the previous year and knew that it would be the highlight of Jo's trip. I wasn't wrong. This trip starts early with a pickup at about 8am or so. It was organised through Iceland Excursions, who are a great company to organise Icelandic trips with. Because of an admin error we got ungraded from a pure snowmobiling trip to a trip which involves snowmobiles as well as the Golden Circle tour. Bonus! As can probably guess, yes, I did this tour as [View Full Entry]

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Day 2 in Iceland was a trip to the Blue Lagoon outdoor geothermal spa. The first time I heard an outdoor pool in the near-Arctic conditions of Iceland I thought the idea was completely insane and was just for those crazy Nordic types - you know, the types who go naked into communal saunas and then flog themselves silly with branches of trees. The setting of the Blue Lagoon in incredible - the frozen, barren tundra near Grindavik on the way to Keflavik Airport. You can see the hot steam rising from a few miles away as you approach it. The [View Full Entry]

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Jo and I took a trip to Iceland for 4 days/3nights at the start of February 2008. I have been before, the previous March, and found the place unlike anywhere I have been before, so decided Jo had to see it as well. OIn the way out we were delayed by 5 hours at Glasgow airport due to appalling weather conditions facing the preceding flight which was leaving from Reykjavik to collect us. That boded well. While we should have arrived at 1pm and had the large part of the Thursday ahead of us, we finally got into the hotel at [View Full Entry]

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Fantastic weekend in the South West area of Iceland. Normal two wheel drive car £90 from Budget car hire. Stayed in centre of Rykjavik in Hotel fron. Cheap, clean and a good breakfast. Went round the Waterfalls, Blue Lagoon and the Geysers all in one day. It's easy to navigate the area and you can find cheap places to eat and drink. We made our own sarnies from the food available at breakfast time in the hotel including drinks! Take the coast road via Grindavik for the best views of the North Atlantic. The locals are great. Not much to do [View Full Entry]

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Before I begin you may have noticed in the last blog I had named some of the photos 'Iceland' -they were in fact Geneva not Iceland I must have had Iceland on the brain! Here you will find out why... On the 9th Nicola and I left for Iceland along with 8 others, we didn't arrive in Reykjavik (the capital pronounced reck-a-vick) until midnight and by the time we got to bed after getting the shuttle to our Hotel named Cabin Hotel it was around 3am. (it wasn't cabins, just named that... weird.) We got up around 8am for a Buffet [View Full Entry]

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After missing the Northern Lights in Alaska, I traveled to Iceland, December 4-9, 2007, hoping to see them. Iceland is a Scandinavian country lying between Norway and Greenland. It is an island nation the size of Kentucky with a peninsula extending from its northwestern corner that looks like a crab with pinchers. Iceland was a Danish colony until 1944. It became independent when the Nazis occupied Denmark. Iceland's flag has the Scandinavian cross, a red cross outlined in white against a blue field. Greenland was granted self-rule by Denmark in 1979. People like to say that "Iceland i [View Full Entry]

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We went to Iceland for XMAS with Daves family who are also over here (Daves cousin Mike and is wife Caz and Jen Irlam). This was the most amazing holiday ever for the unbelievable scenery.. It was also very cold it reached a high of -8 degrees on our first day there with a wind chill factor of something rediculous. We hired a car and drove around the surrounding areas of the capital Reykavik. So here are all the photos which really dont do it justice. Hope everyone had a great XMAS too!!!! [View Full Entry]

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Yes, it's that time of year again. The shortest day of the year is behind me (4 hours of "sunlight" thankyouverymuch) and before me I can feel better days. Days of working my ass off (I have a job now. Innit great?), planning, scrimping and complaining about the costof everything. And after all that, in a mere 180 days - travelling! Since last summer's little...excursion...didn't quite go as planned, I'll have to rectify that next summer. I will, however, leave my schedule more flexible than last time. So far all I have planned is Roskilde (as usual), Copenhagen and Amsterdam. I'll [View Full Entry]

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November 30 to December 2nd --- Reykjavik Iceland A bit of a delay in preparing this blog; once we reach Iceland I took a break in updating the blog, probably because we were close to home and once home Wow was there ever a lot of things that demanded immediate attention. Anyway back to Iceland; the first thing that registered was how far north Iceland is. The sun rose between 10 an 10:30 a.m. and did a low arc on the horizon to set around 3 p.m. One of the things that registered with me and I could never get a [View Full Entry]

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At the Blue Lagoon(Well, this is my SECOND attempt to send the COMPLETE blog entry on the Blue Lagoon.......am having technical difficulties this morning! There should be 34 photos showing, and changes in some of the text.......but that's not what I'm getting........so I'll add more later today so you get the full story 'cause they're too good to miss! My apologies for this.) Good morning, everyone! Well, my body clock is totally confused..........went to bed at 7:30 last night; up and at 'em at 4:30 this morning! It will take a few days to get oriented again. Tons of snow fell [View Full Entry]

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