Now I know that you need a bit of luck to see them, and it needs the solar activity to play ball. Thankfully, there are plenty of other things I wanted to see there. The location of Iceland makes it unique, and gives it some very cool geology. You can stand with one foot on the Eurasian plate, and the other on the North American. You can see Geysirs and swim in natural hot springs. So of course I did.
There's a tour that I went on that goes round something called the Golden Circle. You see three of the countries most visited tourist spots, and they are worth it. It is a land of natural beauty, and these are some of the highlights of places within a drive from the capital. And that didn't seem enough, so I added a snowmobiling trip on top of a glacier to it! That was ridiculously fun. Got some good speed, about 50mph, and if you've ever been quadbiking, imagine that but better!
I spent a few days wandering around the city, looking at some museums, churches and the opera house. There was a very odd exhibit at an art gallery that I just didn't get, and the inside of the cathedral felt a bit too empty, almost like a sports hall. The view from the top of it was great though. The houses are coated in corrugated iron which is then painted, so you get great colours. And when the sunset lit up the opera house, it was just beautiful. In fact everything I saw there was.
Unfortunately, the one down side was I didn't see the Aurora. I went out searching for them three nights in a row, but there was no solar activity. I got some great pictures of stars, but no green lights in the sky. Think this calls for another trip towards the poles!
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