WAGS!
Thank god for airport lounges. Downstairs is full of Cheshires WAGS. With 3 flights leaving for Malaga the place is wall to wall fake tan, hair extensions and acrylic nails. As for the men, the tattoos blend into one moving mural of ink. Last leg of the journey. I intend to spend the next 3 hours in...
Stupid O'clock Keflavik Airport
All good things come to an end. Has Iceland lived up to my expectations? Yes and much much more. What a truly amazing place. The Icelanders are welcoming, happy, helpful people even if they do speak an unpronounceable language. Nothing is too much trouble. Yes, it is the most expensive place I have...
Porpoises, Dolphins and Whales.
You just can't keep the two of us off boats. So an opportunity to whale watch had us chomping at the bit. After clambering into oversize romper suits and a Mae West (life jacket) we set off on a 12 seater RIB. In all of my sailing life, I have never seen a sea so calm and oily. This is the North Atl...
Continental Breakfast
One of the pleasures of international travel is seeing what other nations eat at different meals. This hotel is full of different nationalities making breakfast a brilliant "people watching session". Let's start with our American cousins. Very easy to spot. Sat in front of gargantuan plates of food...
Blue Lagoon
Finally time for a bit of R&R and lounging around the pool or more to the point, in the pool. We are on holiday after all so back on a bus to the Blue Lagoon Air temperature 11c, main pool temperature 38c and the little hot tubs a scorching 40c Not sure I would want to use this in the depths of the...
Does the earth move for you?
Here comes the boring bit. Iceland sits directly on the mid-Atlantic ridge, an 18,000km rift between 2 tectonic plates. The North American plate and the Eurasian Plate. The plates are pulling apart by 1cm a year. This afternoon I left continental Europe and crossed over to continental North America...
Geysers and Steam
I never really "got" geology at school, rock formations were just not my thing. Not unless it was the creation of diamonds or gold. This afternoon, due to a brilliant local guide, it all came alive. Iceland is totally actively volcanic and grows by 1cm a year - sideways. They expect a volcanic erupt...
Todgers and Willies!
Firstly - Happy Birthday to me and my treat for this morning was the Penis museum. I am such a lucky girl. For 10 years I was a nurse so have seen more than my fair share of willies. Long ones, short ones, straight ones and bent ones. Enough to last a lifetime. But this was fascinating and I am no p...
Dublin to Reykjavik
How cool is Icelandair? They have free WIFI on board. No boring movies for me, keeping updated on Facebook is more like it. Well made it. Oh my, this is like no other place I have ever been or seen We landed in brilliant cloudless blue skies and in a landscape that takes some describing. It's stark,...
Southampton to Dublin
04.30 am Southampton Well, thanks to Flybe (you useless bunch of morons) changing their flight time and deciding not to tell anyone until the last minute. We find ourselves catching an earlier flight, a much much earlier flight. The last time I saw the sunrise this early I was going to bed but that’...
Why Iceland
Why Iceland? Because Iceland is on my life’s bucket list of “things to do”. Well… other than Puffins, whales, hot springs, unpronounceable place names, eye-watering prices, a population intent on getting trollied every Friday night and where everyone is seemingly called Magnus Magnusson, why not? Ro...