Happy Boxing Day to all who celebrate and welcome to a new video series. This is the first of a ten-part series on “which is the best geothermal pool / lagoon / spa / hot spring / geothermal experience” in Iceland. Now, I’ve struggled hugely with what to call this. There are ten of these… More New video: The Blue Lagoon – is this the best geothermal pool in Iceland?
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
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
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?
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
Part one of a new series: I know a bit about Iceland and it’s time to turn that into something useful. I’m going to start with the Blue Lagoon, since it’s Iceland’s biggest tourist attraction. First, whether you consider yourself a tourist, a traveller or something in between, and regardless of your feelings around “tourist… More The Icelandic Guidebook: The Blue Lagoon