So the story begins! With only 56 sleeps until our trip to Australia and the first part of my big adventure! We are on a warm up trip to Iceland for the half term! The weather in unseasonably hot at a barmy 5 degrees and we have been 'extremely' lucky to have seen the northern lights this evening. They weren't as green or red as I had imagined but still worth seeing and I can now say that I have actually seen the aurora borealis AKA the Northern Lights! And the photos although not the greatest do show the colours we saw! We arrived in Reykjavik this morning and have done our own mini-walking tour this afternoon. We then had a traditional Icelandic dinner and then headed out to see the northern lights. So now it's time to head black to the hotel to bed as being up for nearly 20hours is long enough for me especially as it's an early start tomorrow ready for the Golden Circle tour.