PART 2 OF A TWO-PART NORTH ATLANTIC ADVENTURE
Sometimes the internet provides you with just too much information. A matter of hours after starting to research the Iceland road trip, my inbox begins to fill with reports from websites whose names I can’t even pronounce. First comes news of a road in Iceland sliding off a mountain side, then a story about the car ferry to Iceland losing power in high seas, and rolling so badly that 80 vehicles on the car deck were wrecked. This is followed by details of a road melting and burning, due to volcanic activity underneath it. And I was considering taking my much-loved 991.1 Cabriolet there?
I get in touch with my contact in Iceland to ask if I needed to worry. Yes, the road slipped off the mountain, but it wasn’t one I’d be using, Olafur reassures me. And the ferry accident did happen, but it was years ago. As for the melting road? Yes, that’s still happening, but not to worry. “It’s all cool,” Olafur insists. I’m not sure that’s the adjective I’d choose, but I let it pass.
“Iceland is different to anywhere else in the
