I love volcanoes and I love Volcano Adventures!
Over the years I’ve been up them and down them and inside them, I’ve swum in them and climbed them and crawled under them. You do have to be careful with lava and some of these are with professional guides but as long as it’s safe, volcanoes can provide some amazing adventures!
So I made a series of it and I grouped them together and now you can see what my Volcano Adventures look like.
When I first wrote this, it was with the intention of being equal parts “I saw a live volcano!!” and “no one’s talking about the hike, only the exciting firey bit” but between visiting and… well, not even publishing. Two or three days after I visited, the volcano ground to a halt. You can still … More I hiked to the new volcano!
Yesterday afternoon, not long after lunch, a new eruption started up in Iceland. After last year’s eruption, I heard some people who know a lot more about volcanoes than I do say that it could be the start of 150 years of increased activity on the Reykjanes peninsula. Now, “increased activity” doesn’t by any means … More Iceland is erupting again!
Yes! At long last I have new travel content – and new Iceland content at that! I got on my first plane in over two years and we’re starting with a bang: I visited the new Icelandic volcano! It still hasn’t been officially named, to the best of my knowledge, but it’s usually called Fagradalsfjall … More I visited the new Icelandic volcano! | Iceland 2022
If you haven’t noticed, there’s a volcano in Iceland still going strong. It’s a great tourist volcano – it’s fairly small and it’s pretty but mostly not dangerous. It’s producing a bit of gas and every now and then it has to be closed because of the volume of gas builds up but the lava … More Inside the Volcano
Nearly two weeks ago, Iceland’s new eruption started (I wrote a blog about it last week) and half the country flocked to see it. I don’t blame them, I’d be among them if not for the plague. But a similar eruption happened in 1973, the birth of the volcano Eldfell, and things worked out very … More Eldfell: the people who fought a volcano
If there wasn’t a plague on, I’d be in Iceland by now, or at least I’d have a flight booked and be pacing the floor waiting for it. You see, the Icelandic eruption finally started just before 9pm on Friday and it’s gorgeous! (If anyone can give me a valid reason I can present to … More The Icelandic eruption is happening
I don’t often do actual time-sensitive topical blog posts but it’s a Thursday, new blog day, and Iceland is threatening an eruption! Now, I wrote this at 11pm last night when it was still just a major earthquake swarm with no actual eruption but by the time this is published twelve hours later, who knows? … More What’s going on with the Iceland eruption?
Back in 2014, I finally did something I’d been wanting to do for a while. Given the lack of English-language information, putting it all together and figuring out how to do it was a bit tricky and so let me save you all that. This is how to climb Esja. Esja is Reykjavik’s mountain. If … More How to climb Esja
After Monday’s post about enjoying caving, let’s have a lava caving story. In the UK, if you’re going to crawl around in a hole in the ground, it’ll be a limestone one formed by water action. It’ll have a certain smell, similar to petrichor, you might find fossils and it’ll probably have a mixture of … More Lava caving: crawling under an eruption
In 2014, Iceland quietly had a massive volcanic eruption that lasted for six months. Hardly anyone outside Iceland heard of it because unlike when Eyjafjallajökull erupted, it didn’t affect anyone else. It was a fissure eruption up in the Highlands that poured lava and poisonous gases and fire fountains for six months and resulted in the … More The Volcano Adventures – Leirhnjúkur
I Am A Polar Bear 