While I’m catching up on old trips, it seemed a good time to talk a bit about my October 2012 trip to Iceland. I don’t tend to go to Iceland in autumn; summer is infinitely better for camping my way around and winter is infinitely better for magical winter wonderland scenery and autumn in Iceland … More Iceland’s Golden Circle in autumn colours
I’m a member of an Iceland trip planning Facebook group and it’s starting to drive me into very strong opinions that I was completely neutral on a year ago. “You don’t even know what hiking is”, “no on has the ability to google anything anymore” and “you’re tourising in Iceland in June, you’re not climbing … More Why you’re wrong to like the Sky Lagoon over the Blue Lagoon
This is a trip from 2013 that needs a bit more writing up. I’ve done a few excursions from it but I’ve never tackled the whole thing as a block and since four weekend adventures in five weeks isn’t filling up my blog schedule as well as I hoped it would, I’m going back in … More Exploring Iceland’s Highland Circle by bus
My Iceland film photo collection is getting pretty good! By which I mean that this is my fourth set of film photos of Iceland and it’s also possibly the best set so far. Winter 2024 was in black and white and not nearly as high-contrast as I dreamed. Summer 2025 was with my grandad’s massive … More Iceland on film (June 2026 edition)
Yes, yes, I know, it’s an old feud that’s half joking and half just longstanding tradition and there’s no real malice between the two Nordic siblings anymore but there’s a history and since I had to hear “I did not know any of this” from someone who partook in a conversation about all this, and … More Why Iceland doesn’t like Denmark
This is what I did in Iceland last summer! There was no point posting it as an Iceland Itinerary then because optimal Ring Road road trip season would have been well and truly over by the time it got posted, but this year it’s going up almost exactly to the day from when it started … More Sixteen Pools: my summer Ring Road itinerary
Ok, time for the post that explains the tag for this series, which is literally “This Trip Was Cursed (2026)“. Before… I had most of this planned back in February. The first day in Reykjavik was a bit more open but I had a potential to-do list and from Thursday onwards, everything was planned almost … More This trip was cursed
Iceland will never run out of interesting and unusual places to bathe, whether it’s a new tourist-oriented geothermal experience or a warm pool in a field you’ve just stumbled upon (if you do find a pool in a field, maybe check up on whether the landowner minds you being there and whether it’s a safe … More A dip at Reykjavik’s geothermal beach
I’m going to start this off by saying that this was never on my original itinerary. I planned to spend Friday enjoying the reborn Laugarvatn Fontana, which is now revelling in saying “steam by the lake” to the point that I wonder if they’ll just take that as their new name. It was supposed to … More I went back Inside the Volcano
People often ask why I go to Iceland so much and one thing I often say is that I love the geothermal hot water and the volcanoes. Iceland is literally made of volcanoes and it’s such a novelty to be able to get so close up to them. The “fire and ice” tag is one … More Three volcanic experiences you can have in Reykjavik while there’s no eruption