Iceland


This is the church that is on the Tjörn in the middle of the city


This is the church at night


Leifur Eiriksson - this guy discovered America, apparently


A skeleton of a whale, honestly they don't kill them any more, not for pleasure anyway


Gullfoss Waterfall (golden waterfall), the windiest waterfall in Iceland


One of the hot springs in the Geiser area


That guy in the background is going to get, like, totally, soaked

ooooh


ooooh


aaaah


The smelly steam behind me is nothing to do with me!


It must have been this Vikings birthday


The Geiser area (geisers are named after this area)


The Alþingi, this is where the first democratic parliament ever was held


That'll be me, by the parliament place


Ingolfur Arnarsson - he was the first settler of Iceland (after the Romans and the Irish)


The handover of the constitution when Iceland became free from tyranny that was Denmark


Asmundur Sveinsson Sculpture Museum - lots of bent bits of metal on plinths


This church was of a slightly different design to all the others, two towers!


The signs throughout the town all show a building shape and are arrow shaped, pointing to the building


Perlan - this is where the hot water for Reykjavik is stored, and there's a museum in one of the tanks too


View from the top of the Perlan


... and from a different angle


The biggest waterfall in southern Iceland


Me, by the biggest waterfall in southern Iceland


People lived in these houses until 1970, then they moved to a nice tower block


These buildings were all owned by an 87 year old man who showed them off in his museum, making visitors sing along as he played with his organ in the church


A typical village, seen from the main road


...and a farm (behind is the volcano that stopped the flights)


The rocks in the ocean are actually a giant, riding his horse, who got made into stone when the sun came out


Some crystallised rock caused by some valcano being cooled quickly by the sea water

A plane once flew through the hole in the rocks, they had to do it 3 times because the guy who was going to take photos of it shut his eyes the first 2 times


Ice on a glacier


The rainbowiest waterfall in Iceland


You can walk behind the waterfall, but you'll get wet


The horses in Iceland can walk in 5 different ways!


Coast side at Reykjavik


The view across the bay


One of the boats they used to arrive here


Conclusive proof that Icelanders, not only hunt Whales and eat Puffins, but they trap Moomins and sell their pelts

(c)Philip Jones 2010