to Iceland – next week!
We're booked, but have discovered that our passports expire in August and that means they are not valid for Iceland – they need to have at least 2 months on them…. so Tone is off to Liverpool tomorrow to the passport office to get them renewed – fingers crossed.
We are staying near Thorlakshofn in the South West in a small hotel this time – just for 4 nights – we got a special deal on the new flight from Manchester, bed and breakfast and a hire car, plus entry to the Blue Lagoon.
We would really like to get to Thorsmork, but can't unless we go in a 4×4 vehicle. We could get a local bus but that is £35 each and goes at 10am returning at 3.30pm – a very short day especially considering it will be 24 hour daylight! We might therefore upgrade our hire car to a 4×4 – it will probably be cheaper - but that seems such a bad idea environmentally – and we thought Iceland was really hot on "green" issues – the high cost of public transport for tourist trips like this seems to contradict their other policies.
We are going to try to meet up with Joi and Sonya again if we can. We'll let you know how we get on with these plans in a day or 2.
