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Sandwich Day
… and I don’t mean the nice ham and cheese one I had for lunch! 🙂 I asked for a less dramatic day today and got it. We started with a relatively short drive through a completely empty black sand Continue reading
Desert Flower
One of Thursday’s shots, showing the sparse vegetation a near a river contrasted with the black sand desert behind. Continue reading
An Eventful Day
Wednesday was a fascinating and rather eventful day. We started off gently enough with a group of locations around Landmannalaugar which were a combination of black hills streaked with almost fluorescent green moss, and colourful tarns surrounded by black, brown, Continue reading
Glacial Panorama
This is a panorama from just one side of a small hillock near Hrafntinnursker which has a remarkable view. Bewteen this and a similar view the other way you can see no fewer than ten of Iceland’s glaciers. The one Continue reading
Pot-lert
This is a rather nice pollur (=”tarn”) near Landmannalaugar. I particularly like the red, green and blue palette. I’m beginning to get the hang of Icelandic pronunciation. It seems to mainly involve putting at lot of “t” sounds where they Continue reading
Waterfalls, Waterfalls…
With the original cinema release of Life of Brian the Monty Python team included a wonderful documentary spoof called Away From It All, which includes at one point the memorable line “Gondolas, gondolas and more ****ing gondolas”. Tuesday’s journey through Continue reading
Our Guides
Meet our guides. I’m doing this trip with an Icelandic company called Nature Explorer, which is run by Haukur “Hawk” Parelius, in the background in this shot. He has several drivers, but always does the Fire and Ice trip himself, Continue reading
A Day of Travails
You don’t realise quite how empty the interior of Iceland is, or just how much time you’re going to spend bouncing over unmade roads through deserts of rock and mud. It’s not surprising that NASA test their extra-terrestrial rovers here. Continue reading
Please Don’t Shoot the Motorcyclists!
´Nuff said… Continue reading
It Now Costs a Pound to Spend a Penny!
Just a quick update today, as I’ve had a few computer problems and time is tight… Yesterday we were picked up from the hotel in two enormous “superjeeps”, which started life as Nissan Patrols but now stand about 10ft tall, Continue reading
Reykjavik “Culture Night” – The Other Side of the Coin :)
And here’s some more of the flower of Iceland’s youth! Judging by the outfits Reykjavik has at least two pole dancing clubs in competition with one another. I would say it keeps them off the streets, but of course yesterday Continue reading
Reykjavik “Culture Night” – One Side of the Coin
I wanted to show the breadth of the “Culture Night”, and was torn between these three cute Icelandic maidens singing their very tuneful folk songs, and the pole dancing. I suspect in the interests of journalistic integrity I have to Continue reading
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