I’m usually pretty hopeless at tackling memes. I’m always delighted to be tagged but then I procrastinate at length by which time the momentum has passed. So when Liz from The Mum Blog started a...
The day I walked on Vatnajokull Glacier
The Family Burgess on Vatnajokull glacier I read this morning that another volcano, Grimsvotn, has erupted in Iceland, this time under the Vatnajokull glacier in the south east of the country. I’ve been there,...
Anyone for pickled penis?
I had to smile over my morning cuppa today when I turned to the back page of the News Review of the Sunday Times. Iceland’s Phallological Museum, which we visited in 2007, has, at...
This week I will be mostly wearing…
….THIS! Don’t you just love it? I won this in a competition on the Facebook page of the Iceland Today website. I could have won a whale-watching trip (please God, not again), a woolly jumper or...
The Gallery – Favourite Photo – Iceland
For Tara’s Gallery this week we have to choose our favourite photo. For me, it had to be this one, Thingvellir in Iceland, for a variety of reasons. The Geography The great fault line...
Mum’s Gone to Iceland – revisited
Iceland has been getting such a bad press lately that I thought it my duty and pleasure to redress the balance and remind everyone how beautiful and enchanting the country and its inhabitants are. I...
Mum’s Gone to Iceland – Day Fifteen – Going Home
My favourite view of Iceland – Thingvellir – just heavenly. Pack our bags for the final time this morning to head off to the airport. After seven hotels we’ve got used to living out...
Mum’s Gone to Iceland – Day Fourteen – Golden Circle
Strokkur blows its top… Iceland’s big tourist attraction is the Golden Circle, a tour of three spectacular natural phenomena that are the must-sees of any tourist visiting the country. We were meant to do...