Some Articles of Interest

Here are the opening paragraphs and links to a few articles about Icelandic travel.

Land of Elves and Trolls and Pretty Ponies (NY Times)
Iceland isn't foreign, it's extraterrestrial," a friend of mine once said. There is, when you come right down to it, hardly anywhere as elsewhere as Iceland: suspended in mid-Atlantic at the very fringe of the Arctic Circle, it was for centuries the ultima Thule of the known world. For many of us, it is a place visited but never seen, a mythical place where one refuled on the way to somewhere else......


Ice, Ice, Baby (Salon)
"I paid to come on this trip?" Laura gasped as our Icelandic horses picked their way like mountain goats along "the Scream," a slippery, narrow path on the edge of a precipice with a 50-story drop to a glacial river below.

"Just look up the mountain," urged Judy, one of nine women in our group, most of whom had never met before we signed on for this rigorous tour hosted by "Adventure Women." "Think how lucky you are to be in the midst of this magnificent surreal setting, a place that only someone........

Iceland’s Ring Road: The Ultimate Road Trip (NY Times)
We lift off from J. F. K. at 9 in the evening, headed toward Reykjavik, and by the time the bars back in New York have closed, we are tucked in lava rock, submerged to the neck in a hot blue pool with sulfurous steam clouds bursting up around us. It's the summer solstice, the longest day of the year, and the sky surrounding us never darkens.

The week ahead promises us 168 hours of uninterrupted daylight in which to drive the Ring Road around Iceland. Though it's not a particularly long distance, I already sense that seven days will be about half as long as I would have hoped for. And so we have bolted straight from the airport to the nearby Blue Lagoon.