Holiday To Iceland 2017

After a long time of 'some day we'll visit there' my boyfriend and myself FINALLY said goodbye to quite a large chunk of our savings and booked a holiday to Iceland.

We used a travel agent to help us choose accommodation, days out and flights etc so it was all quick, easy and no hassle at all for us.

They suggested Reykjavik to stay in as its the capital of the country and the place with the most shops and life. (Iceland has a population of roughly 300,000 which compared to the UK of 65 million - there werent many towns and villages as you can imagine haha).

Upon arrival we expected - as it was the capital after all - for the place to be buzzing with people all rushing around crazy crazy getting to work and to catch trains etc - a bit like London, but we couldn't have been more wrong!

Infact its definitely one of the calmest and quiet places I have ever visited, with everyone being polite and getting on with their daily life without any rush or bother to anyone else.

We stayed in a cute little Apartment (called Apartment K) which was away from the main Hotel reception and across a couple of roads with only two other rooms in our corridor - perfect!

As for accommodation we found the whole place a bit strange at first - their decor is definitely a lot different to that in the UK. 

Our bed for one was two double mattresses next to one another on the floor with six pillows and three duvets - but it was the comfiest bed we've ever have and probably ever will sleep in!

Reykjavik itself is extremely beautiful.

We would be walking along the streets surrounded by shops selling big warm coats and woolen jumpers, and then turn a corner and faced with huge snow topped mountains.

The townsfolk who lived there were clearly used to the scenery and didn't look twice but we couldn't believe what we were seeing!

In this same place but above mountains, we were lucky enough one clear (and very cold) evening to spot the Northern lights.

Our tour we had booked was cancelled due to cloudy weather the day before so as the sky was so clear the next day we took the chance and were SO lucky!

Taking photos of the lights was harder than expected and a kind man who was in the same spot as us who had seen the lights before, put my camera on the right settings and took the picture for me!

(They were a lot brighter and more spectacular in real life).

We also booked a day out to the Blue Lagoon Spa which I'm sure you've been popping up on your Facebook newsfeed on adverts - it seems to be everywhere!

It was of course a BIG tourist attraction but it was so huge that we never felt crowded by the many other people in the spa with us.

I'm planning on doing a post completely on the Blue Lagoon so I'll keep it brief for now, (watch this space).

The Golden Circle was an eight hour day out, which we travelled around on a bus with a tour guide and lots of other people. We stopped off at three places, a tomato farm, the hot geysirs which shoot hot water into the air, and the huge Gollfoss waterfall. If you're thinking of visiting Iceland I would definitely say to do this day out, because not only do you get to see the sites but also its no stress for as you literally just get on and off a bus and get taken around (as long as you're back to your bus on time...), but the views out the window on the way to each site are just amazing, and every corner the bus turns you are faced with something different to look at! 

At one point we had grass and the sea on one side of the bus, and snow covered mountains on the other!

Visiting Iceland was definitely one of those holidays when I had many moments of 'is this even real life?!'  simply because everything is so much prettier than you could ever imagine and even the town itself full of shops and restaurants is amazing to walk around.

Be warned though - if you're planning on visiting Iceland on holiday take LOTS of money. Everything is much more expensive over there than in the UK and we spent a lot of the holiday converting what we had bought back into pounds from Icelandic Krona and almost fainting in shock! haha.

Also the air and water - especially hot water has a slight eggy smell to it. We had researched this before going but didn't expect it to be as noticeable as it was. It's a natural smell and just caused by the Sulphur in the water. So don't be alarmed if you run yourself a bath and it comes out smelling of fried egg haha. Plus the smell doesn't stick to you or your hair after washing or even makes it taste any different for drinking.

Have you visited Iceland before? What was your favourite bit?

Molly

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