My next three days in Iceland would see me join a photographer in a trip that was designed to explore Iceland beyond the day trip extensions of Reykjavik, pick up some landscape photography tips and capture Iceland best I could with my camera. [Read more...]
There are many day trips possible from Reykjavik and there are a number of coach trips available to transport you (along with a busload of other tourists) from photo stop to photo stop. When planning my trip I knew my budget had to stretch far enough to avoid one of my travel nightmares – the tourist bus! One option available to independent travellers is to rent a car and drive themselves around Iceland, popular due to the relatively quiet and well maintained roads. Despite getting used to driving on the right-hand side of the road from recent weekend trips in the USA, I wasn’t feeling brave enough to drive on my own, especially in May where some of the roads were only just re-opening for the summer. [Read more...]
Iceland has been in the news for all the wrong reasons in recent years. Volcanic ash from the eruption of Eyjafjallajokull in spring 2010 caused travel chaos across the skies of Europe. Grounded travellers had unplanned holiday extensions and a legitimate reason for not turning up to work, whilst trains, cars and ferries faced their biggest demand in years.
The collapse of the banking sector and subsequent devaluation of its currency in 2008 made Iceland, who had never really bothered anyone and didn’t even have their own army, a sudden economic enemy of the UK and Netherlands.
And Bjork wore a swan dress to the 2001 Oscars! [Read more...]
