Our new word for today is “jokull”, which is Icelandic for glacier – our Icelandic vocabulary has doubled overnight. And we saw dozens of jokulls today. The Vatnajokell Glacier is the largest in Europe and 8% of Iceland sits under several hundred metres of it. It is responsible for most of the volcanic activity as its sheer weight […]

We’re heading towards the south east on our anti-clockwise circuit of Iceland and it is unveiling it’s incredible beauty. You need to wear a raincoat to the waterfalls as you get wet from the spray. We could walk behind Seljalandfoss Skogafoss was awesome in its power The traditional buildings have grass growing on the top We […]

We visited the Westman Islands, off the south coast of Iceland. The most famous of these is Surtsey, which came into existence in 1963. We visited Heimaey, the largest and only inhabited island of the group, with 4000 residents. In 1973 a volcano erupted and buried 400 houses under 20m of lava. The lava flow almost […]

Foss is Icelandic for waterfall and it’s the only Icelandic word we know. We have seen lots of fosses, Gullfoss was our first and boy was it spectacular! We shared it with 2000 of our best friends And then all our new friends came with us to check out a geyser But we had this […]

A pretty city, lots of brightly coloured corrugated iron buildings