The morning of the 1st of June presented itself well. Bright sunshine, no wind and a balmy 9C at 9am, summer had arrived - overnight. Got as high as 11C.That was until we got into the west fjords area then things went downhill, the sun got somewhat bashful and hid behind clouds and the wind picked up so that over some of the higher mountains along our route it dropped the temperature back to around 2C. There was plenty of snow on the ground too.We camped one nigh...

Episode 5We though of visiting the Westman Islands, the main one of these, Heimaey was partially overtaken by a lava flow in 1973 when a huge great fissure opened up right beside the town in January of that year. the eruption continued for around 6 months. Heimaey was and is once more the home port of the largest of Icelands fishing fleets; the whole fleet along with most of the towns people were evacuated off the island and it took a couple of years to get the p...