Geysir to Þorlakshöfn After leaving the campsite we went down to the Hotel Geysir which runs the campsite for a swim in their hot spring-fed pool and a dip or rather a wallow in the hot tub. Both were brilliant, especially after days of either no showers or fairly poor ones. Although we stayed in the water for well over an hour and a half, our skin did not assume prune texture. The water felt almost greasy on the skin and certainly there was a strong sulphur ...

SkógarToGeysir: Surprisingly after the last two days of pretty hard slog over mountains, neither of us was too stiff or sore in the morning. However we did both sleep very well indeed! We started the day with a trip to the Skógar Folk Museum. Outside were old Icelandic houses, barns, a blacksmith's cottage, a schoolhouse and a church, saved from the surrounding district and relocated to the museum site. Most had been lived in or used until relatively ...

LangbrokToSkogar - Volcano by SuperJeep: Yesterday was the day to see, and go inside, a dormant volcano. Today was the day to see - but definitely not go inside - a real live active one. We booked a trip with a company called Arcanum which guide people on walks to a volcano which is an offshoot of the 2010 famous Eyjafjallajökell - one of seven or so craters that belong to the main volcano. The volcano sits between the glacier sheets of Eyjafjallajökell...

Stokkseyri to Langbrok - Into the Volcano: After a quiet - and free - night's camping we drove to the appointed place to meet the guide for the tour we had booked on the internet from home. Called 'Inside the Volcano', we had read about this unique experience in the travel guides in the Sunday papers. We were met by a very fit young blonde Icelandic woman, our guide across the lava fields to the volcano. The group consisted of Brits, Americans, Canadians ...

Kirkjubæjarklaustur to Stokkseyri: We had tried to see puffins in Ireland on the cliffs in the north but they had all gone elsewhere when we were there last year. The guides all say the puffins have left Iceland by the 15th August but we were still hopeful. We drove out to a headland called Hálsanefshellir. Here there are huge caves lined again with all sizes of columns of basalt, some fanning out at odd angles or sweeping up over the roof of the caves....