Geography Trip to Iceland

6th November, 2009

Iceland is home to the largest volcanic lava field in the world and boasts more volcanoes per square whatever than almost anywhere else. Anyone who travels there can swim in rivers flowing with hot water, walk through fields where boiling water bubbles continuously out of the ground or just stand and watch as volcanic geysers hurl fountains of water and steam high into the air; and just before half term, the top year was lucky enough to be taken there by Mr Reavill.

We walked behind a waterfall and on the top of a volcano.  We stood on the edge of a glacier and on a black sand beach, sheltering under basalt columns from a wind so strong it felt we might fly:  and we walked along the Mid Atlantic Ridge where two of the Earth's great tectonic plates grow and separate, reaching the site of the Althing, one of the world's first parliaments.

Iceland is a place of many marvels and natural wonders and somewhere many of us hope to revisit one day. To Mr Reavill, who organised it all, I can only say from all of us who went with him: 'takk fyrir'.