Description: Writer - loves red wine, coffee, raspberries & tennis. Secretly wanted to be a backing singer but alas, has missed that boat. Only the bathtub left to sing in now.
An unexpected Christmas present found me in Iceland in early January on a five-day adventure. It may seem that all planes lead to Iceland at the moment, but if you find your chance to hop on one, I’d thoroughly recommend it.
Normally, I’d tell you to do your research/ watch TV travel programmes before you commit but this time I would say DON’T. Don’t watch Travel Man (either edition) because quite frankly, on watching them in preparation, my heart sank and the impression they gave, was of a crazy country obsessed with elves, but there is so much more to Iceland.
An ink splat of a country, sitting precariously on the Mid Atlantic Ridge in the North Atlantic Ocean, marking the boundary of the American plate and the Eurasian plate, it only has a population of just over 340,000 with 118,000 of them living in the capital Reykjavik. Its interior consists of lava fields, mountains and glaciers and it is these you will want to see, along with bathing in hot springs, geysers shooting up into the sky every 3-8 minutes, black beaches and wild, tempestuous seas.