I went for a day once. Sounds stupid I know, but if you look in the papers they advertise a day trip to Iceland. Steve's parents treated us to it for his birthday a few years back.
Obviously didn't get to really see very much of Iceland, but from the little we did see, I have to say that it was an absolutely beautiful country in a kind of 'moon landing' kind of way!
The Blue Lagoon is wonderful. Everyone just strips down to an old swimsuit and jumps in. It needs to be an old suit because the whole of the bottom of the Blue Lagoon is covered in mineral mud. Each day, the people that work there scrape a load of this mud out and leave it in buckets on the side of the lagoon so that visitors can cover themselves in the mud by either scraping the mud off the bottom of the lagoon or use the buckets.
Cover yourself in this stuff for 20 minutes and you feel like a new person! It's really wonderful! Obviously the water is very high in mineral content too and very warm! We spent about 2 hours there.
Steve's got scoriosis (sp?) and his head is always very flaky (no change for men everywhere then!
) and they do a fantastic range of shampoos which have cleared his head up a treat!
They also do a range of muds and stuff that you can take home and they are heavenly!
Rekjavik (sp? some secretary eh!
) is the most picturesque capital city i've every seen - all the houses are pretty colours and it's very scenic. It is VERY expensive for food and drink so have a healthy budget for this. It's not incredibly populated though - I believe (from memory) that the population of Rekjavik was approximately 200,000 when we visited.
We also went whale watching which was brilliant - lots of minky wales!
Finally, getting back to my 'moon landing' comment, it's the strangest landscape i've ever seen - quite eerie in places as Iceland isn't very densely populated and the whole 'island' is volcanic - therefore you get vast areas of black pock marked, untouched landscape which just looks like something off this planet.
Sorry not to be very helpful on the 'booking' front - it's not cheap - a day trip cost Steve's parents near on £200.00 each but it was well worth it and i'm sure you can get better deals if you're staying for a week or so.
Hope the description has whetted your appetite though.
HTH.
