One week to go

Still not quite sure what possessed us to spend the annual summer holiday in Iceland - I mean, why would you go from the cold north west of England to somewhere which will probably be even colder? Booking a couple of excursions tonight (cheaper to do before you get there apparently), and getting together the confirmations of different bits of the trip makes it feel that much closer.

We've never been the type of people that spend extended periods of time on a beach. Mostly we go for what we consider more interesting places. Usually perhaps a little more mainstream than this, but now looking forward to something a little different.

The plan - a week's trip flying from Manchester to Reykjavík (or more precisely Keflavík, about 30 miles outside Reykjavík, and then a bus journey in). It's close enough to the Arctic Circle that it never really gets dark this time of year, so it remains to be seen how we cope with that. A few days in Reykjavík, punctuated with a flight across to Hofn, a small fishing town on the south east coast, with an overnight stay.

For those that don't know, Iceland sits on top of the mid-Atlantic rift, where the Eurasian plate meets the North American plate. Just reading about once valley next to the rift, where they get 10,000 earthquakes a month (most too small to feel).

More thoughts to follow ...