“Is it as bad as it sounds?” As I draw back the lurid green curtains in our campervan, my husband's question is answered.
Beside us in the campground on western Iceland's Snaefellsnes Peninsula, a rooftop tent is being lashed so viciously by the howling wind and horizontal rain, it looks like it might rip off the vehicle.
“It was touch and go there for a while,” chuckles one of its Kiwi occupants when he emerges alongside his similarly shell-shocked partner shortly afterwards.
Our Iceland van-camping adventure is drawing to an end, and the Nordic nation's notoriously wild weather has finally caught up with us. With the wind still screaming and the dramatic volcanic scenery of the peninsula that inspired French novelist Jules Verne's Journey to the Center of the Earth…
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International Traveller (Digital) - 1 Issue, March - May 2025