Fosshotel

... hotel. The guide came around everyone on the way back into town and got a list of where everyone was staying.       The FossHotel Baron was 50% off with Entertainment card. It's pretty central in the city centre with a view of harbour and hills ...

... which offers regular services to Reykjavik city, 50 kms away. Passengers are dropped off at their hotels around the city. Our hotel, Fosshotel Baron, was next to the seashore, and just a few metres away from the main shopping area, Laugarvegur. Soon after ...

FossHotel Baron said we could have breakfast early on Tuesday. Since flights leave early in the mornings, this can't be an unusual request. So we were up at 4, after a wake-up call, to be at breakfast at 4:30. We had the same choices as before, just ...

Started out after a quick breakfast to drive to Hofn, a little fishing town in the south east of Iceland. The weather had turned great with beautiful sunny skies and no wind so the ash had settled down and wasn't blowing into your face like the previous ...

Getting sick is not fun at the best of times, but when your on a trip it's extremely frustrating. After only three hours sleep I woke up feeling like crap with a pretty nasty cold. I guess walking along beaches at 1am in the morning whilst photographing ...

After a much needed afternoon nap I met up with Tony Prowers, my photo tour guide for the night. Tony is well known for his photo tours around Iceland and, having done a bit of research back home, I had decided to do a tour with him in the Skaftafell ...

Our journey around the Ring Road continued as we headed north on the eastern shore of the island towards North Iceland.  (I've again chosen to describe our experiences here in sequential fashion).  During this ...

I'm not sure exactly how long we had each stayed awake, but Monday morning we woke up, having slept for 13 hours!!!!!!!! Breakfast was almost over, so we hurriedly got dressed. Housekeeping knocked on the door, as the boys were still dressing, and ...

Today I drove to Skaftafell. To get there I had to traverse the huge outflow plain in front of a large glacier. The glacier covered the whole of the northern horizon as as I drove along. This glacier has the added attraction of having an active volcanoe ...