It's now Wednesday morning and I'm finally starting to write Monday's blog. I won't get it finished before I have to go out so it'll be Wednesday night before it's done. I'm hoping to be back by six at the absolute latest tonight. So, Monday. Pickup at seven. There was a Japanese girl from a few doors up also going on the same trip and when the minibus hadn't arrived by 7.15, she decided it would be best to walk down to the office. A few minutes later, I decid...

Today I actually had a lovely relaxing day. Pickup wasn't until 9.30 which gave me hours to get up and get packed and get ready to go, since I woke up at around 6.30. What I actually did was follow in the footsteps of Jules Verne or various Bond villains and I descended into the magma chamber of a volcano called Þríhnjúkagígur (Three Peaks Crater). This is the only volcano known in the world to have an empty magma chamber - it seems that after its last eru...

At four o'clock this morning, some of the other inhabitants of this apartment were getting ready to depart for the airport. This I deduce from the noise of a suitcase being dragged over a tiled floor. At five o'clock the people in room 6 left. By about 6.30 I'd given up on sleep and was starting to get stuff together for the day. First there was the interesting discovery that my Thursday blog - the day I didn't do anything except arrive! - was OffExploring's B...

Today started early when I woke up at 6.30am. By seven I was having breakfast and by 7.50 I was bored enough to go and stand outside to wait for the bus. To my surprise, the bus was actually already there, ten minutes early. I got taken to the ticket office, exchanged my piece of paper for a ticket, as usual, and waited for my bus. When it arrived, the bus was a truck. I didn't realise at first - I saw the truck arriving and assumed it was Landmannalaugar or s...

Having been woken up by the sound of the terminal apparently crashing down around me, I adjusted my suitcase to shift as many of the books as I could find into my hand luggage and headed to the Heathrow Express to take the shuttle over to Terminal 1. Heathrow at 8.30 in the morning is very different to the deserted Heathrow of 11 at night. I was a bit early. I checked in at the machine, which took all of thirty seconds because this time, it recognised my passp...