The Golden Circle is a 300km tourist drive up through the southern uplands north of Reykjavik. Coming from the west, our first stop was the Haukadular Valley where active steam vents and geysers abound. The…
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Iceland’s famous Ring Road runs around the perimeter of the country. It’s ‘only’ 1,328km but it’s a single lane speed-limited road and although there are many fabulous things along it, there are also many…
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Vestmannaeyjar is a group of 15 islands off the coast of Iceland, formed by submarine lava eruptions between 10,000 and 12,000 years ago. Except for one that’s new. Surtsey was created in the 1960s when…
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The first permanent settler to Iceland, Ingolfur Arnarson, arrived from Norway in 874 CE after becoming involved in a blood feud back home. There is no evidence of the island ever having an indigenous population…
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