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Taking a Fashion Tour of Iceland

Posted By Jonny Blair on April 18, 2017 Leave a comment

Iceland has long had a reputation for eccentricity, quirkiness and not really giving a damn what anyone else thinks is trendy. Remember the pink pants episode and the willy exposure? Reykjavik is fast becoming the ultimate destination for Nordic cool …

Backpacking in Iceland: Top 5 Sights Outside Reykjavik

Posted By Jonny Blair on August 12, 2016 Leave a comment

“My Mum has gone to Iceland” – Bennett. I think the indie pop band actually meant the shop called Iceland, but of course I’m here to write about travel, yet when I was backpacking through Iceland, I couldn’t help but …

Backpacking in Iceland: Top 5 Sights in Reykjavik

Posted By Jonny Blair on November 28, 2015 4 Comments

Iceland isn’t so much a “backpacker’s gem” as it is a traveller’s gem. For a start, it doesn’t border any other countries, so there’s no chance of backpacking there overland. Most people fly in and out, though some get a …

Backpacking in Iceland: My Top 5 Memories

Posted By Jonny Blair on September 15, 2015 7 Comments

My recent trip to the fabulous Faroe Islands reminded me of a similar trip, eight years ago (to the exact month) when I visited Iceland. Although I wrote a fair bit about Iceland at the time, I never dwelled on it, …

The Day I…Wore Pink Ladies Pants to the Blue Lagoon in Iceland

Posted By Jonny Blair on June 14, 2013 4 Comments

Another of those “you had to be there” travel stories and this time it comes from Iceland. That magnificent island country that most backpackers in Europe forget about as they’re too busy inter-railing round the mainland. We had booked onto …

The Day I…Missed My Flight In Iceland

Posted By Jonny Blair on February 22, 2013 2 Comments

Iceland is a traveller’s paradise and my 5 days there in 2007 were amazing. Geysirs, lagoons, waterfalls and craters, this is a country for the lover of landscape and countryside rather than your urban city buzz. However my 5 day …

Top 3 Waterfalls I’ve Seen

Posted By Jonny Blair on November 11, 2012 8 Comments

I’ve seen dozens of waterfalls and as I mentioned once before “you rarely get a sh*t waterfall” (there was one on the Great Ocean Road in Australia actually, as it was literally just a drip of water falling…). But I’ve …

Backpacking in Iceland: The Blue Lagoon

Posted By Jonny Blair on October 31, 2007 1 Comment

A thermal swimming pool in Iceland! Most people have heard of The Blue Lagoon haven’t they? Well I’d heard of it and when I realised I was in Iceland, suddenly it would have been stupid not to visit it. So …