Iceland weekend escape

When I created this blog and started posting on it, I really didn’t have some kind of big plan. I wanted a place where I could post the pictures we were taking. A place where we could share our memories with family and friends. It immediately turned into more of a Peak District hiking photography blog. We didn’t travel all that much, but we were hiking in Peak District every weekend, so naturally – all you’re familiar with now is: Peak District. We had a few road trips to Scotland too, can’t forget those! ( here the first and the second) Then Covid 19 happened, and it made it almost impossible to travel anywhere. In fact, as we hunkered down during the first and second national lockdowns, we didn’t even hike anymore. To say it’s been a challenging 2020 and 2021, is an understatement.

But getting back to the blog – when I say we didn’t travel much, I don’t mean at all. We did have the fortune and pleasure to have go on an Iceland weekend escape in 2019. It left us wanting more. Because we had so little time at our disposal, we drove a lot, back and forth, to try to capture as many interesting sights as we could.

It was January, and the reason for our Iceland weekend escape was to catch the Northern Lights. It’s been a dream of mine for some time – to sit under the Aurora, and watch it dance across the sky. We even picked a place from which to enjoy it – Kirkjufell mountain. Sadly, the lights never showed that night. We did capture some nice photos, but no Aurora that time.

We ended up visiting Seljalandsfoss waterfall, Reynisfjara Beach as well as Sólheimajökulll Glacier – the first glacier we’ve ever seen. There really was no time to visit more sights, so we made the best of what we had. The weather was fickle so we didn’t get to capture any breathtaking sunrises. On our last day though, before we boarded our flight back to UK, the weather was perfect, so we ended up driving around Hvalfjörður fjord and taking some pretty amazing pictures.

We spent 3 days in Iceland. We definitely didn’t have a lot of time and we did feel the need for a drone. There’s only so much you can do with just your camera. Iceland is amazing and deserves more exploration. In January the day was short though. We only had a few hours of sun, from 11am to 4pm. The day was so short that the sun barely rose that it set immediately after. Or so it felt. The light, when it wasn’t too cloudy, seemed to always be golden. As if the whole day was one long sunrise. I think that was the most impressive thing of all.

We will definitely go back. We’d like to travel there this year, this summer even. I want to see more and I want to hike there too. Hopefully we’ll be able to. Until then, here’s a few shots that we love:

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