A tourist takes a lava selfie on the Reykjanes Peninsula, Iceland – Sophia Groves/Getty Walking through a charred landscape, steam streaming from the horizon into a lifeless sky, I could have found myself in a dystopian nightmare. Darkness, rubble, sulphurous gases: not exactly the triumvirate of sun, sea and sand that determines most people’s holiday … Read more
Editor’s Note: Catherine Fulton is a Canadian journalist and editor-in-chief of The Reykjavik Vine. She lives in Reykjavík with her Icelandic partner and their two children. The views expressed in this commentary are her own. read more CNN Opinion. I remember the first time I experienced an earthquake in Iceland. I ran to the nearest … Read more
Editor’s Note: Catherine Fulton is a Canadian journalist and editor-in-chief of The Reykjavik Vine. She lives in Reykjavík with her Icelandic partner and their two children. The views expressed in this commentary are her own. read more CNN Opinion. I remember the first time I experienced an earthquake in Iceland. I ran to the nearest … Read more
Thirteen years after the Eyjafjallajökull volcano famously spewed ash into European skies, multiple eruptions across Iceland have spawned an unlikely new travel trend: volcano tourism. Iceland is one of the most volcanically active places on Earth, with an eruption occurring approximately every three to five years, much to the delight of adventurers looking to catch … Read more