Near Lake Myvatn, Iceland

Reykjavik Opera House....on its side...I'm new to this blogging lark

Inside the Reykjavik Cathedral

Outside Reykjavik Cathedral

Me and the girls near Lake Myvatn

Somewhere else near Lake Myvatn....smelled eggy

What lovely food shall we have tonight?

Back from Iceland, which was a great surprise to me. I went in search of the Northern lights....... didn't see them.......but fell in love with everything else about the country.  Away from the cities, the landscape was barren and beautiful. I want to go back in the same snowy weather to have a go on a snowmobile and then go back again in the summer to see the landscape when it's green. The people have a really attractive pride in their country and all they do, and a dry sense of humour which tripped me up a few times. Oh, and they have beautiful blue eyes. :-) Fabulous food, great company (I took that with me in the shape of 'my girls') and some shooting stars. Pretty good indeed.

So, Lawson Mansions is now temporarily Nicholson Manor whilst a pal of mine looks after it, pending a tenant. Packing up was so horrific, I'm not sure I will ever move back in. Ha ha. 

2 more sleeps till I go..... 

The route

Precede this with Iceland, Connecticut, New York and Las Vegas....oh, and a pretty empty wallet :-o

Uh oh!

So, having had some vague ideas of letting my family and friends know what I'm up to over the next 7 months or so by setting up a blog, I seem to have done just that! 

Now to try and work out how to make it a bit more exciting than plain old text......oh, the title?.....well, I'm leaving the luxury of one of York's finest properties* (according to me), with its open fires, oak panelled walls, 50 inch plasma TV and high tog duvets for.......a truck, no doubt some roads that may have appeared on an episode of 'World's worst' or something similar, 24 strangers and a 36000km route round South America (cue penny-dropping for the llama reference).

http://www.odysseyoverland.co.uk/south_america_explorer.htm

Watch this space..... :-)