I was supposed to be in Iceland last month. Obviously, that didn’t happen. Icelandair have been very good about changing flights for free so after being on hold for 77 minutes, I moved my flights to November and the tour companies I’d booked stuff with both have policies of refunds if you cancel more than … More Stay At Home Storytelling: The Iceland itinerary I had planned
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
All visitors to Iceland go to the Blue Lagoon. It’s amazing, entirely worth the hype and it’s now so, so expensive. I’ve been several times and I now bring you a short “how to…” blog because apparently I know the answer to a great and mythical secret: How do the lockers at the Blue Lagoon … More How do the lockers work at the Blue Lagoon?
You wouldn’t believe how many times I’ve tried and failed to write this post. How hard can it be to tell you about Myvatn Nature Baths, my favourite (one of my favourite?) spa in Iceland? Myvatn Nature Baths is a geothermal spa up in the north east of Iceland. It’s a major tourist hotspot for … More I love Myvatn Nature Baths
Here are 10 things you need to know about Iceland before you go: tips for surviving the climate, making the most of your holiday and most importantly, not being an inconsiderate tourist leaving permanent damage behind. 1) Do not tread on the moss. No, never. Especially not for that Insta-perfect shot. That moss will take … More 10 Things You Need To Know About Iceland Before You Go
You may have seen the imminent Katla eruption in the news lately, a huge & deadly volcano about to blow Iceland – and European air travel – to kingdom come. Or is it? Well, we don’t really know. As a species, we still don’t know much about volcanoes and we certainly can’t predict with any … More Is Katla about to erupt?
Iceland is a country where travel can be difficult – only 11% of the land is habitable, another 11% is covered in glaciers, snow coats everything more than a couple of miles inland for up to ten months of every year, mountain roads frequently have glacial rivers running through them, a lot of roads are … More Photoset: Large Icelandic vehicles
Back in the summer of 2014, I rented a car and based myself in and around Borgarnes, on Iceland’s west coast and spent one of the days driving around Snæfellsnes. You can do it in a day but I find it’s such a long way and there are so many things to stop for that by … More The Volcano Adventures: Climbing Saxhóll
Sundhöllin is Reykjavik’s oldest public pool. Designed by Guðjón Samúelsson, who also designed Hallgrímskirkja, Reykjavik’s Catholic cathedral and the big church in Akureyri, it’s a Art Deco style building and was opened in 1937. Unusually for an Icelandic pool, it’s freezing. I visited a couple of years ago. It’s right in the centre of downtown … More I visited the new Sundhöllin extension
Over the last three weeks or so I’ve been publishing my diaries from the Laugavegur Trail. You may have read them. Give or take a bit of clearing up, they’re pretty much exactly as I wrote them, sitting in a tent of an evening. If you read my Day One diary, you might know that … More What went wrong on Monday?
I Am A Polar Bear 