Iceland {South Coast}

I love Iceland. It’s one of my favorite places in the world, and I’d move there in a second. I’ve spent a grand total of less than two weeks there, and have hardly seen any of it, but once you go, you’ll totally understand. You’ll just want to go back. Even when you’re there you’re thinking, how would this look in the summer? winter? sun? snow?

It’s just so beautiful, and you want to experience everything it has to offer. In every season.

Our second visit was a stop-over, we spent a week touring the south coast along the ring road. If you haven’t been, when you’re planning a trip you can’t understand why directions are so vague, and wonder how the heck you’re ever going to find anywhere. And then you arrive, and you realize there just really aren’t that many roads, and half of the places you want to get to are either so specifically sign posted, or you just literally bump right in to them. It’s all part of the charm.

We stayed at an Air-b-nb, a horse farm. I went with my daughter, and neither of us are much into horse riding, but we both adore the Icelandic horses and thought it would be a good way to get a little fix without having to go for a ride, it worked out well for us. It was fun coming home to the magnificent horses. We still had to stop a few times when we’d see a spectacular horse, or one in a particularly pretty location, because they are kind of ridiculously gorgeous.

Vik is this charming village, the southernmost town in Iceland, with the most amazing black sand beaches. And puffins. Which makes it pretty darn perfect. And while we were there, add Lupines. What more could you want?

I wanted to see a lava field while we were there the second time, the first time we were there, everything, including any lava fields we may have passed, was covered with snow. I’d see photos of moss covered lava fields that made me ooh and ah, but I had a heck of a time finding out where they were. Eventually I learned what I’d kept seeing was the Eldhraun lava fields. The directions were ‘on the ring road between Vik and Skaftafell’. Helpful. Worse was when you do actually just stumble upon them on the ring road, they go on for miles and miles and miles, there is just no where to park. Really. No pull offs. No edge of the road. Nowhere to park. Eventually I found a little parking area with some trails (you can’t walk on the lava fields, you’ll do irreparable damage to them, but there are one or two spots where you can park and there are paths around some areas so you can have a better look.) I have never wanted a drone more in my life. I was mesmerized. Enchanted. Totally bewitched. I found it stunningly beautiful. My daughter, thought it was cool, and interesting, for the first 10 minutes. I couldn’t believe she didn’t feel the same way as me. She couldn’t believe I wanted to stop again to take photos again… lol. Here is one of those spots I’d like to see again (and again, and again. Honestly, I’d like to be the view from my window for the rest of my life, but I digress…) when the moss is dry it’s kind of brown and is lighter, when it’s wet it turns more green and darker, I’d like to see that!

more Iceland adventures…