Yesterday afternoon I had this feeling of incredulity as I stood on a glacier in Iceland taking in the amazing views.

View from the glacier

A few days earlier I’d received a tweet asking me if I’d like to come to Iceland to report on the Canary Islands “No Winter Blues” campaign kicking off with Mission Iceland. Now here I was less than one week later standing on a Icelandic glacier.

Me in a multitude of layers on the glacier

It was a bumpy ride in the jeep up the snowy track to the glacier, making me feel rather queasy.

We even had a picnic on the glacier. I perched on a snowmobile in order to have a resting place for my food and get my feet off the frozen ground.

It was a wonderful if somewhat stomach churning, chilly experience. Even although it was cloudy most of the time on the glacier the light was amazing.