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July 18th 2017
Published: July 19th 2017
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The water from the tap is boiling hot and sulphurous but makes your skin feel soft and smooth. The people are polite and charming but their landscape is harsh and unforgiving. Volcanoes spew molten lava through frozen glaciers but are talked about with affection like a favourite pet rather than a destructive, uncontrollable force of nature. ‘Iceland - land of contrasts’...seems an inadequate ... Read Full Entry



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Svartifoss, on VatnajokullSvartifoss, on Vatnajokull
Svartifoss, on Vatnajokull

showing wonderful basalt column formations
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Skaftafellsjokull

Skaftafell glacier on Vatnajokull
What is land?..what is sky?What is land?..what is sky?
What is land?..what is sky?

geothermal area on the way to Seydisfjordur


church in Seydisfjordur


North East landscape on the way to Akureyri


river near the Dettifoss waterfall


Rhys being unimpressed by the Namaskard thermal area
Midnight sunMidnight sun
Midnight sun

taken at midnight from our apartment in Akureyri
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Eyjafjordur

Iceland's longest fjord at Akureyri, 10km wide x 60 km long
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Flight

sculpture in Akureyri
at Grabrockat Grabrock
at Grabrock

one of several volcanoes only 3,600 years old


rock formations at Dritvik, Snaefellsness
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Snaefellsjokull

the volcano/glacier featured in Jules Verne's Journey to the Centre of the Earth



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