A busy last two days in Iceland saw us, first, take a 12 hour bus trip to into Landmannalaugar where we passed close to the Volcano Hekla, bathed in warm thermal pools, when the outside temperature and wind chill were way too low for us, and saw amazing volcanic scenery. Second we took an island trip to the Vestmannaeyjar Island group and tried our best to get to Surtsey Island which is UNESCO Heritage listed, failed at that, but enjoyed doing an around the islan...

We were on the road by 6.00am from our previous night's stop at Borgannes, with a new plan of where we were going to go, now that we could no longer circle the island. We passed through the most scenic country of steep green hills, fat grazing sheep, waterfalls (some frozen) and ice covered mountains. There were grand fjords reflected in impossibly still deep water and neat little farm houses with big barns.We stopped in at a tourist office in the quite large...

"Haven't you heard about the bridge?" the tourist office lady exclaimed when we made a casual inquiry regarding availability of accommodation in the town we were heading for, to spend the night. “No what has happened?”“Well you won’t be able to head East for maybe 3 weeks. A Glacial Ice Flow has taken out the bridge 50 kms from here on Highway 1, in the early hours this morning. You will have to make new plans!”“What is a g...