Sunrise, sunset Swiftly flow the days .. We’ve been here two weeks now and had a ball, but there has been just one day of good light, and here are some sunset shots taken at about 10:30pm on that day

Deserves another and another, so here’s three tern pikkies from today. Note the parent has a fish in its beak Mt Snaefellsnes seems to have created its own peninsula from its lava flows and today we explored the coastline where the lava has formed a rugged coastline and some incredible shapes Just in case you’re sick […]

The guidebook said we would be tripping over seals on the beaches if we added the Vatnsenes Peninsula to our itinerary. This added 100km on a poor unsealed road which turned out to be … unsealed, save for a few over-sized garden slugs about 100m away. Having recently had a walrus pop its head out […]

The weather lifted today after a week of cold northerly winds and rain. It was a glorious morning and as we drove around the fiords we couldn’t find superlatives enough to describe the scenery. The little fishing village of Olafsfjordur with 2,000 people is accessed through a 5km tunnel bored straight through a mountain, it’s just […]

For those wishing to discover Iceland, I have bad news – it’s already been found. The tour buses are everywhere, in some places you have to queue up to get on a viewing platform and then use your elbows to get to the front for a photo – mine are sharp. However the good news is […]