All fairy tales come to an end

It’s still night when our alarm goes off. The reception desk of the hotel is open 24/7 and we can easily check-out. They don’t serve breakfast this early, but they’ve prepared a bag with about 8 little croissants for us and a cup of orange juice. Amazing! Because this is the only night where there’s a reasonable chance to see the northern lights, we check the website/forecast again when we leave. It should still be possible to see them, but the sky is partly clouded and in the city there’s definitely too much light pollution. Maybe once we’re on our way to the airport and we’re in the middle of nowhere.

Once we’re on the highway the artificial light gets less, but unfortunately for us, this seems to be the only highway where they’ve placed street lighting on the entire highway. With the partly clouded sky we quickly give up any hope to see the northern lights and wonder how the volcano would look at night. It must simply be amazing to have that extra bit of glow and contrast of the lava in the pitch black dark. Not much later we get an impression of how amazing this must be: the sky in the distance has a red glow. Just like the sun is about to rise! How cool is this?! Even from the highway we’re still stunned by this volcano and mother nature.

There’s no one at the car rental office at this time of day (or night) and we have to leave the keys in a box. Curious if we’ll hear anything from them about our beloved car we go to the airport. Fingers crossed they don’t find anything seriously wrong, or the sounds start coming back during a test drive.
Spoiler alert: we didn’t hear from them, yet.
When it’s time to board the aircraft the first daylight reaches the island. As dawn breaks, we leave this magnificent country behind us. We’re both sad it’s over, but truly grateful we look back on a trip full of amazing experiences and breath-taking views.

I hope this blog may inspire you to one day visit Iceland. The title of this last blog post is not only a good music band, for me it’s also fitting for the country. The earth with all its contrast in colours and mountains. The elements of the weather of which wind is especially something to be prepared for. And last but not least, fire, of a never-ending looming danger beneath this island.

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