8th March -7C Snowing Woke up this morning to a thick, thick layer of snow. Last night we had dinner at Perlan which is a revolving restaurant under a glass dome and built on the city's hot water tanks. It has wonderful views and l could see it would be awesome durnig the warmer months. I had a steak which was cooked perfectly but it didn't taste like the steaks back home. Same with the veges and even the watermelon isn't as crisp and fresh tasting. Wha...

7th March 1 degree Snowing and windy Our flight out of Akureyri was supposed to depart at 6.25pm last night however because of bad weather we didn't fly out until nearly 8pm. Once again the plane was quite small (about a hundred seater) and the wind was blowing it around and a couple of times it dipped a fair bit which was frightening. Anyway, we arrived safely and caught a taxi to our apartment which is in the centre of town. The room is small but not as...

5th March Snowing So we went searching for the lights again last night. It was a perfect night for it.....no clouds and no moon, (the temperature was minus 5 degrees) but we were only rewarded with the haze again. So disappointing. I have just been talking to the guy at the reception desk and he said that at about 8pm last night the lights were over the town and you could see them really clearly!!! We were sitting inside eating at that time, isn't that ju...

Friday 4th March 0c - -5c wind chill: -5 to -9 A 4x4 collected us at 10pm last night to start our search for the Northern Lights. There were 2 other people in the car 1 of which had already seen the lights on a number of occassions. It was a nice clear night although extremely windy. We drove north of the city for about 20 minutes and we stopped just so the driver could point out the start of the lights. It was really just a haze of light. We drove on for...

3rd March 3-6 degrees Up bright and early this morning as we are going on a tour around the Myvatn area. Myvatn is about 90k from Akureyri. Our hotel is only about 500 metres from the bus stop and as we walked over there our feet were slipping from under us as the snow had started to melt and was turning into ice. It was also very sloshy (is that a word?) and wet underfoot. So glad for my waterproof shoes. So we finally got under way on the tour. We drove p...