Earlier this year I was trying to decide what I wanted my 60th birthday to look like so a girlfriend and I settled on a 6 night trip to Iceland in search of waterfalls and northern lights. I had no illusions about the cold – I grew up i Canada and have been to Antarctica several times – I thought I knew and understood cold until I came to Iceland!
We tagged a couple of days on the front end in Boston so the flight to Reyjkavik was not bad at all; 5.5 hours overnight on IcelandAir and there we were. Daylight is short at this time of the year (about 9-5) so we caught our transfer and met our tour group at the Whale Museum. Both that stop and the Northern Lights Museum were excellent first stops before we drove southwest to the town of Hveragerdi. A nice welcome dinner meeting our fellow travelers and travel director then to bed. And yes – we did see streaks of northern lights out our window that night
For our purposes 6 sleeps in Iceland was perfect; 2 nights Hveragerdi, 2 nights Husafell & finally 2 nights in Reykjavik. There were so many pleasant surprises and simply enjoyable moments on this trip; lots of waterfalls, rye bread, hot springs & northern lights. Oh and whilst we were here the lava field under Reykjanes peninsula is on the move with tons of volcanic activity and it looks like an eruption is in the not too distant future
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