I've had a very successful weekend, both in terms of having had a wonderful time, and of ticking off items from the bucket list.
I went to Iceland (check!). Go. Seriously, go. It is such a beautiful country, and the people are incredibly friendly. Sure, it's pricey, but it felt worth the money. The landscape is bizarrely stark and beautiful at the same time. At first the flats almost look like the Yorkshire moors in winter, until you realise that what looks like dirt and scrub is actually laval rock and lichen. And then there are the mountains, rearing up from nowhere with their bold streaks of black mass and gleaming white snow, an improbably huge glacier (check!) bulldozing through infinitesimally slowly.
In addition being lucky enough to see the Aurora Borealis (check!) on our second night there, we also saw geysers, a frozen waterfall, stood on the brink of a tectonic plate and miraculously failed to acquire any ice based injuries. Pretty much the only negative is that the whole place has the lingering odour of rotten eggs; a side effect of the sulphurous thermal springs.
Oh, and I ate soft shell crab (check!). That stuff is good!
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