Australian Road Rider

ICELAND IN WINTER

“ICELAND IS NEARLY AS BIG AS TASMANIA, YET HAS ONLY TWO-THIRDS THE POPULATION...”

The first few kilometres felt like hell: a white blanket of snow, crushed flat by cars, killed visibility and traction while making the temperature very cold. Maybe Iceland in the winter wasn’t such a great idea after all.

We, the two Alessandros, were heading from the capital, Reykjavík, to the village of Vík í Mýrdal, on a pair of Ducati Multistrada V4s.

In Vík í Mýrdal we based ourselves for two nights, taking advantage of the days to have fun with our Multistrada V4s and fully immerse ourselves in Icelandic nature, which with its magical scenery never ceases to amaze: stacks and cliffs that the waves seem to want to devour, beaches of black sand like coal, and waterfalls that seem the fruit of

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