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.
Good news: Iceland is having another eruption! Better news: at time of writing, it’s flowing away from major infrastructure like Grindavik, the Blue Lagoon and the Svartsengi geothermal power station! After all the rumblings and theories of the last three months or so, it seems to have popped up in the best possible place of… More Volcano special: Sundhnúkagígar
This is my favourite video of the series and I’m so excited that it’s finally out! Day four of my Iceland vlog series sees me on a tour bus at 7.40am to head out into the Desert of Misdeeds to Askja. It’s a shorter day than I expected, only eleven and a half hours, driving… More Video: Expedition to Askja & Viti | Iceland vlog 🇮🇸
In this week’s video, it’s my birthday! I give you a quick tour of Systragil, drive the hour or so to Myvatn, put up my tent at a beautiful lakeside campsite and then head to Myvatn. Hverir, the hot springs area, is my first stop, then I go up to the viewpoint over the Krafla… More Video: Exploring the Krafla geothermal area | Iceland vlog 🇮🇸
I’ve done Askja before. Twice, in fact. In 2013, I went in a huge black jeep and swam in Viti, the warm flooded crater. In 2016, I returned because I wanted to visit Holuhraun. It was a beautiful day but the guide didn’t mention swimming until we reached Viti and I left my swimming stuff… More A (possible last) visit to Askja
This is possibly the thing I was most excited about when I went to Iceland: I went to Lava Show Reykjavik. They make lava in a theatre! Lava Show originally opened in Vík, a small town on the south coast where tourists tend to stop for fuel on their drive along the south coast. I… More They made lava in a theatre! (Lava Show Reykjavik)
Today was supposed to be about packing for a winter glamping trip, aka what you need to take to survive in an uninsulated tin can in December but then this video popped up in my YouTube subscriptions today. It features Iceland and specifically Meradalir and you know I can’t resist commenting on that kind of… More Tom Scott goes to Meradalir
I know, you frequently see “I did [this or that] Rebel Badge but I do other badges as well. I spied that Pawprint Badges had a Volcanoes badge and as they’re big and beautiful and I was going to Iceland, I thought I’d do that one. To be honest, I find Pawprint badges work better… More I did my Pawprint Volcanoes badge!
Now that I’ve been to an actual live eruption, I realised it was time I did an Iceland Itinerary for Volcano Fans. Why haven’t I done this before? It’s not like there aren’t enough volcanic delights to get a book out of (and I know; I’ve been trying to write it for five years). This… More An Iceland Itinerary for Volcano Fans
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!