Iceland

Iceland lies just on the Arctic circle, making it very cold, windy and rainy. Just like Aberdeen. We visited in Easter 1991 for just four nights, and saw many of the sites, mostly revolving around geothermal and natural features. I visited for a second time in June 2001, to change flights, and there was a great view over the barren moonscape that is Iceland. There are but 250,000 people in the country, mostly in the capital Reykjavik. There is a great sense of locality, everybody either knows each other or is related.

A very large waterfall near Reykjavik which sprayed a lot of water. I can't say much more than that about it cause I don't know, but I think it completely freezes in winter.

The smaller of two geysers in an area of geothermal land with sulphur springs and boiling mud near Reykjavik (everything is near Reykjavik!) It erupted once every few minutes.

One of the many volcanoes in Iceland, this is just a small one but active nonetheless. The crater is filled with ice, but that poses no problems when the volcano feels like being disgruntled. We were in Iceland just a few weeks after Hekla had stopped erupting for three months.

This is the house where President Reagan met Mikhail Gorbachev and shook hands on the doorstep, as can be seen here! It was to symbolise an agreement at the end of the cold war, or something...I suppose I should really find out what...