Myvatn geothermal area
Elda guesthouse at Myvatn Lake proved to be a fantastic place to stay, with comfortable rooms, great kitchen and dining room ( with view of the lake) and super friendly staff. Breakfast was delicious too! It looked as if the weather would be kind to us, but as we have learnt, it can change extremely rapidly and we should have been warned if we had taken more notice of the looming black clouds approaching over the hills. We had five wonderful minutes at Namaskard, a spectacular landscape of red clay, with the most fantastic patterns of yellow, light blue and cream. It is incredible that such a wonderful sightseeing area is still free of charge, but also that despite it being such a very volatile area of bubbling mud pools and steam vents, there is nobody there to check that people are staying behind the ropes. I am not sure our health and safety laws would allow this. In fact, everywhere we went today was free of charge, and rightly so because they are all natural phenomenom...