Out of Norm Travels - Iceland The Land of Contrasts
As I wrote this, I had already finished my last bits of Skyr, Iceland's famous low fat yogurt and with that last bit, all my lovely memories from a land I had visited in early February 2016 started flooding back. This land is located some 12,680 km/7,878 miles away from home and took me some 16+ hours over 2 airlines before I finally landed on Keflavik International Airport , Iceland's international airport located in Reykjavik, which is also Iceland’s capital. Reaching Iceland has been nothing short of a dream with my travel into extreme cold where "normal" means 0 degrees or less. For me, Iceland is a country of contrasts where Fire meets Ice, Water claps hands with the Earth, Skies says hello to the Earth and the Land where Giants, Trolls and Elves used to roam. Our travels across this vast land first brought us towards Kirkjufell (West Iceland) on the nor...