Page 1 - In and Around Reykjavik

The flight from the UK to Iceland is a very reasonable 3-and-a-bit hours, and with so few people at Keflavik Airport at any one time, it took no time at all to be on the coach towards Reykjavik. Building up images in our head of our freezer (that needs defrosting), I guess we were a little surprised to find that it was almost above zero and that the snow was quite light. But it was never quite that warm again.

Iceland has roughly the same land mass as England but, as our guide mentioned on quite a number of occasions, has only a population the size of Sheffield. About 50% of the Icelandic people live in Reykjavik, so every journey feels like you've taken the wrong turn (like the coach trip from Keflavik to Reykjavik for instance)! But then the Icelandic feel perfectly at home driving (souped-up) 4x4 vehicles through 2 foot snow miles from anything that could be accurately described as "a road", so who am I to comment?

On our first full day in Reykjavik we looked around town before heading back to our hotel. We reached a frozen lake on the edge of town, however, before we even had time to fight the marauding bird life off, a full-blown blizzard appeared from nowhere!

A view of Reykjavik from atop the locally famous 'Pearl' restaurant (or 'Perlan' in Icelandic). Rather than cloud above the distant mountains, it is actually a blizzard that was over us not 5 minutes before.	Another photo of the frozen lake, now without blizzard, but unsurprisingly, still with birds.

This house in Reykjavik is the meeting place used by Reagan and Gorbachev to settle the Cold War.	Tim in a typical Reykjavik street. It is of course not typical to have what appears to be a laser-wielding tank trundling past.

Corinne atop the viewing balcony on the Pearl. Note that this photo was taken at about midday (and that's the moon in the picture by the way).	They don't do small Christmas trees in Iceland!