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Postcard from Iceland

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Saturday 10 March 2018
Disclaimer: I should have uploaded these photos about weeks ago, but life has been pretty busy and I just haven't had the time. If you want to know what I've been up to I did a life update blog here.

I've been wanting to visit Iceland for years, so I jumped at the chance to go when Vanessa invited me along on her birthday trip. So at the end of January, myself, Vanessa, Nat, Gemma and Kevin headed off to Iceland.

We arrived on Thursday and spend the evening exploring, then got up early on Friday where our first stop was The Icelandic Phallological Museum. which is home to the largest collection of penises in the world. There's a lot of people who probably think this is a bit weird for me, especially given my love of animals but it really was the most weirdly fascinating place that I've ever seen. Here's a picture of me posing beside the penis of a sperm whale (that's certainly a sentence I never thought I would say out loud).



After the museum, we took a walk around Reykjavik before we headed for the Blue Lagoon which was the most magical place I've ever been. Despite it being such a tourist hub, they don't oversell tickets, so it doesn't ever seem that busy. We spend about 3 hours in there - we had a drink, did a few face masks, enjoyed the steam room, and felt very, very relaxed.

We spent Saturday driving round the Golden Circle. We stopped at the Þingvellir Natonal Park first which looked very different than it did on the tourist board. We got a group photo taken and we were actually standing on top of a picnic table which had been completely covered in snow. 
I feel like everyone else loved the Geysir but me. I don't know if it was the fact that it didn't look as effective in the snow or because there was literally 100 tourists standing around it with their cameras out waiting to take photos, but I didn't love it. In fact, I actually enjoyed the gift shop more than actually natural wonder.

My favourite place on the route was Gullfoss Waterfall. I don't think I've ever seen anything so spectacular in my life. Due to the winter conditions, there was a gate preventing us from going closer to it, but everyone seemed to be ignoring it and just climbing over the gate anyway. The path was completely covered in ice, so I obviously fell over but it was worth it for the view you got when you reached the top. I mean just look at how amazing that view is...
On our final day, we decided to spend it in Reykjavik before we had to head back to the airport. First stop, was a really cool flea market before we split up for lunch and shopping. I went to a vegan drive thru which was really cool (my review is here if you want to read it) and then picked up some souvenirs to take back home for my family.