Iceland day 5 - Obligatory day in Reykjavik, the most northern capital city in the world. We spent the day eating, wandering the streets, souvenir shopping, and visiting churches, museums, concert halls, and cemeteries. I suppose that I shouldn't say obligatory, as I actually find myself half in love with Reykjavik. Even with the semi-constant wind and drizzle of rain. It smells like fresh earth and the sea. There is insane graffiti around every corner, geom...

Iceland day 4 - Wow folks, just wow. I knew that today was going to be a good one, but man...Jokulsarlon Glacier Lagoon, you just blew my mind. Unreal. And the fact that we were the only ones there at 7am (even if I had to literally drag everyone out of bed) certainly didn't hurt. It was so inconceivably quiet. You could actually hear the ice calving from the glacier. We sat and stared at the huge chunks of blue, blue ice floating calmly past. The chunks h...

Iceland day 3 - I woke up and departed the hotel, on my own, at the holy jesus crack of dawn to head back to Gullfoss (ie. big waterfall). My eagerness paid off and there were only two other visitors when I arrived (as opposed to the several hundred the day before). The sun finally, gloriously came out for a brief moment and I was treated to a shimmering rainbow over the falls. The only agenda for today was to drive from our hotel near Gullfoss waterfall to ou...

Iceland Day 2 - Yesterday we encountered almost no one. We drove from wonder to wonder with the roads almost completely devoid of other travellers. Today I think we saw every tourist in Iceland. Every. Single. One. Today we toured the famed Golden Circle, comprised of Gullfoss (a really big waterfall), Thingvellir (the national park where two tectonic plates meet), and Geysir (basically a geyser). We finished the day by alternately soaking in hot geothermal ...

Iceland Day 1 - We landed after long delays and stomach churning turbulance. A journey from airport to Blue Lagoon to Stykkisholmur and the Snaefellsnes Peninsula. We marvelled at a landscape that seemed other worldly, driving past at least a hundred and one waterfalls, and watching cute Icelandic ponies chase cute Icelandic sheep. We put many, many kilometers on our tiny baby Ford Feista. And we ended the day tired, a wee bit cranky, but utterly bewildered b...