My wife and I decided we'd like to see the aurora borialis before we died. Initially it was going to be a cruise to Norway, but she suggested Iceland.
We are so glad she did. Nordic Visitor asked what sort of holiday we wanted and fixed everything up, including tours to many very interesting sites. Our driver on the initial tour, Pauli, told us a lot about present day Iceland, touching on economics, politics, geography and some interesting cultural references. For example there is a unique museum in Reykjavik specialising in one particular body part.
The holiday included a visit to the Northern town of Akureyri from where Nordic Visitor has arranged for us to spend an afternoon with a very creative performance artist, Anna Richardsdottir,. Fanatic, not the sort of opportunity one has on most trips.
we were to join an expedition specifically to see this phenomenon.
Our flight was met as promised at Keflavik Airport, and we looked forward to a meal and a restful evening. However, there was a Northern Lights tour available the same evening.
Although a bit knackered by traveling for 12 hours we decided that it would about double our chances of achieving our objective if we joined it.
Our guide on this trip told us that conditions were good, we would be driving for about an hour to a site with little of no light pollution and adjacent to a cafe run by a friend of hers. Soon afterwards, she said "It's beginning! If you look out of the right side of the bus you can see it"
We were on the left side and couldn't see anything. A few minutes later she told us we should be able to see it from both sides. We looked out, there were some streaks in the sky, they could have been moonlit clouds, not very convincing. But when the bus stopped, and we got out for an unobstructed view,<