Ashes, Ashes, we all fall down. Or so the nursery rhyme says. It's more like "No Planes Fly !". We just couldn't get over the fact that a volcano on a small little country like Iceland could stop a large portion of the planet from traveling.
As I write this, planes have been grounded for days. Many family and friends have been stuck in airports to and from Europe. We wish everyone a big dose of patience. What else is there?
I must say though that each time it would come on the news the kids and I would gather around just so we could get a glimpse of the volcano and Iceland.
A couple of years ago I took my children to Iceland. It was on my life list ( A life list is a list of things you want to do or experience before your die). So on one Dec 26th I started searching online and started renting a little vacation house, booking airplane tickets, and ordering travel books on Iceland.
You must know that my friends thought I was nuts. "Iceland? Why Iceland? Isn't it really cold? What will you do there in March?"
"Well that depends. Remember, there isn't bad weather,only bad clothings." One of the big highlights is the aurora borealis. Also remember that my friends live in a warm climate and have little exposure to life in the North.
We spent the most incredible Easter week in Iceland, and though we were only there for 7 days, we bonded with this place for a life time. It is unanimous in our house, Iceland was the best vacation we've ever taken to date. There are times throughout the year where we have a real longing for Iceland. The waffles, daily bouts of coffee drinking at Kafe Tar,walking on the sea, visiting geysers, eating vegetable soup at a frozen waterfall, standing between the continental shelves, sitting in bookstores,walking around Reykjavik, and going to the blue lagoon have all of us longing to go back to Iceland.
So when we heard that a volcano was erupting in a glacier on "our" island, we have been enthralled. My blogging friend Britt's brother actually lives in Iceland and wrote a wonderful blog post about the volcano with photos. Have a look right over here.
To give you a feel for the place and to inspire you to travel there yourself, if the volcano let's you, here are some photos of "the best trip ever."
