The Adventuring Hills

Our second full day in Iceland saw us with a trip to the Blue Lagoon booked for the late afternoon, but first we had several hours to explore first in the morning and early afternoon. We had no set plans, but after a bit of looking around at recommendations online, we decided to visit the Lava Tunnel. The Lava Tunnel  is about a half hour drive away from Reykjavik, and offers various tours that you can pre-book or turn up and go on. We decided to pre-book their standard lava tour that takes you through the first couple of sections of the tunnel, without the need for any real fitness. It also only takes an hour, as opposed to the 3-4 hour "Adventure Tour" that we would have done if we had had more time on our side. We took a slow drive from our hotel out to The Lava Tunnel, stopping lots along the way to capture photos of our surroundings. Once we reached the location of the Laval Tunnel (it is possible to drive past and nearly miss it if you're not looking out pro...

Day two in Iceland saw us rising before the sun - not difficult to do considering sunrise isn't until gone 10.30am in January! We had a quick breakfast at our hotel, with Paul enjoying the Icelandic yoghurt known as Skyr, then it was time to get layered up as much as possible ready for our Golden Circle tour that we were booked on for the day. Gray Line Tours picked us up from our hotel room to transport us to Reykjavik bus station where the coach tour departs. As we were getting ready for collection, the rain was coming down hard. It looked like it would be a soggy experience, but as we climbed onto the coach the rain quickly turned to snow. As people who were born and raised in England where snow is generally disappointing, and then the few times it is good, the country grinds to a halt; the snow we experienced in Iceland was something else entirely. Within minutes the ground was covered, but still life carried on as normal for everyone. The coach tour set off, and although ...

A little later than planned, I'm finally writing about our trip to Iceland that happened in January. For my birthday in December, the lovely Mr Hill booked for us to go to Iceland. We arranged to go away in January to get Christmas and the likes out of the way. Mid-January rolled round and saw us leaving at 3am to drive to the airport to fly to Iceland. It was pretty chilly, but nothing like what we knew to expect once we reached Iceland. A short 3 hour flight saw us landing in Reykjavik's international airport, Keflavik. After we cleared through security we went to pick up our hire car which was going to be our main mode of transport for the 4 days we had to explore the country. It was a bit of a surprise to find ourselves with a Hyundai i10 as our mode of transport, but we quickly learned that it didn't matter what make and model the car was, as long as it had snow tyres on, this was all that mattered in the icy and snowy environment! We had a short 20 minute dr...