Our first stop is a church up in the foothills
The Golden Circle of Ísland, Iceland - 22nd April 2017
We hire a car for the day and drive the "Golden Circle" - a 100-mile route which takes in Þingvellir National Park and the Öxarárfoss waterfall - site of the Alþing, the seat of Iceland's ancient parliament; The Strokkur geyser at Geysir; the epic Gullfoss waterfall; the "Secret Lagoon" in Flúðir and finally the Kerið volcano. Somewhat amusingly, car hire turns out to be one of the few things that isn't eye-wateringly expensive.
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A derelict concrete hut
Another view of the derelict hut
Isobel looks out on the icy wastes
Isobel pokes around in the snowy wastes
More tourists look out over the snow
A 4x4 heads off to the mountains
Isobel looksout over a lake
Isobel checks her phone
Two walkers in the mountains, and some rare trees
Isobel takes a photo of a bare bush
Aaiieeee!
Pillow lava flows
We head into Þingvellir
The waterfall at Þingvellir National Park
It starts snowing again
Tourists in the snow
Öxarárfoss waterfall in the snow
Watching the waterfall from a platform
Tourists mill around
Isobel looks into the edge of the American plate
The Þingvellir drowning pool
A couple of boulders perch across a gap
Across the great divide
Part of the Almannagjá fault
Isobel looks out over the fault plain
A church and houses by the river
More peering into faults
The Almannagjá fault - big enough to walk in
Church on the plains
Lava pillows
Some dude inspects a monster truck
We head over to Geysir
Crowds roam around at Geysir
There's a hole in the water
The Strokkur geyser blows one off
The geyser looks like a rocket launch
Milky blue pool of hot water
Isobel roams around
Isobel has been 'geysered'
The geyser goes off again
The epic Gullfoss waterfall is the next stop
Gullfoss waterfall and the Hvítá river
Another view of Gullfoss
Nosher by the waterfall
There's a smidgeon of rainbow in the spray
More epic moster-truck conversions
Icelandic ponies on a farm
Isobel floats around Gamla Laugin in Flúðir
Isobel in the steam of the Secret Lagoon
Words in the steam
The low key, and slightly secret Secret Lagoon
Hot springs occur right next to a river
Remains of the derelict original changing rooms
The Secret Lagoon
The crater of the dormant Kerið volcano
Isobel looks at the crater lake
Cool lichen on rocks at the top of Kerið volcano
Isobel is a dot in the landscape
Volcano crater
Isobel inspects the crater
Snow rolls in up the valley
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Our first stop is a church up in the foothills
Our first stop is a church up in the foothills
A derelict concrete hut
Another view of the derelict hut
Isobel looks out on the icy wastes
Isobel pokes around in the snowy wastes
More tourists look out over the snow
A 4x4 heads off to the mountains
Isobel looksout over a lake
Isobel checks her phone
Two walkers in the mountains, and some rare trees
Isobel takes a photo of a bare bush
Aaiieeee!
Pillow lava flows
We head into Þingvellir
The waterfall at Þingvellir National Park
It starts snowing again
Tourists in the snow
Öxarárfoss waterfall in the snow
Watching the waterfall from a platform
Tourists mill around
Isobel looks into the edge of the American plate
The Þingvellir drowning pool
A couple of boulders perch across a gap
Across the great divide
Part of the Almannagjá fault
Isobel looks out over the fault plain
A church and houses by the river
More peering into faults
The Almannagjá fault - big enough to walk in
Church on the plains
Lava pillows
Some dude inspects a monster truck
We head over to Geysir
Crowds roam around at Geysir
There's a hole in the water
The Strokkur geyser blows one off
The geyser looks like a rocket launch
Milky blue pool of hot water
Isobel roams around
Isobel has been 'geysered'
The geyser goes off again
The epic Gullfoss waterfall is the next stop
Gullfoss waterfall and the Hvítá river
Another view of Gullfoss
Nosher by the waterfall
There's a smidgeon of rainbow in the spray
More epic moster-truck conversions
Icelandic ponies on a farm
Isobel floats around Gamla Laugin in Flúðir
Isobel in the steam of the Secret Lagoon
Words in the steam
The low key, and slightly secret Secret Lagoon
Hot springs occur right next to a river
Remains of the derelict original changing rooms
The Secret Lagoon
The crater of the dormant Kerið volcano
Isobel looks at the crater lake
Cool lichen on rocks at the top of Kerið volcano
Isobel is a dot in the landscape
Volcano crater
Isobel inspects the crater
Snow rolls in up the valley