Iceland 2025

June 21st, 2025 - Going home

The night was short. The alarm clock went off at 4:00 a.m., and after a quick break­fast, we walked the short dis­tance to the air­port. After check­ing in, we were able to relax in the lounge for a while before our flight took off on time. The flight was pleas­ant, tak­ing us over the Färöer Islands.

to Frank­furt. Our daugh­ter was already wait­ing for us there and took us back home.

Epilogue

Our trip to Ice­land was sim­ply over­whelm­ing! Hard­ly any oth­er coun­try com­bines so many con­trasts: green forests, blue lupine fields, bizarre lava fields with­out any veg­e­ta­tion, wide plains, and impos­ing, snow-cov­ered moun­tains. Add to that the count­less water­falls, the huge glac­i­ers, and the bound­less expanse—we could­n’t stop admir­ing it all. Ice­land is a nat­ur­al won­der that you sim­ply have to expe­ri­ence for yourself!

A very spe­cial high­light of the trip were our two vis­its to the puf­fin colonies on the Dyrhólaey penin­su­la near the town of Vik and in Bor­gar­f­jarðarhöfn in the West­fjords. Here we had plen­ty of oppor­tu­ni­ties to observe and pho­to­graph the cute puffins up close. I took so many beau­ti­ful pic­tures that I have now cre­at­ed my own puf­fin cal­en­dar from the best ones:

We par­tic­u­lar­ly enjoyed the free­dom of hav­ing our own motorhome. We lived in it full-time, cook­ing, sleep­ing, and show­er­ing in it. It’s like hav­ing your hotel with you at all times, so you can relax with a cof­fee any­time, any­where. We only went to restau­rants twice. The free­dom to decide spon­ta­neous­ly where to go at any time is won­der­ful. We only used the camp­sites for sup­plies, waste dis­pos­al, and electricity.

Trav­el­ing in a motorhome has com­plete­ly cap­ti­vat­ed us! So much so that we are now seri­ous­ly con­sid­er­ing buy­ing our own vehi­cle in the long term. We don’t yet know exact­ly what our ide­al motorhome should look like. Our camper in Ice­land was per­fect there, but it would prob­a­bly be too big for the nar­row streets of the pic­turesque vil­lages in France or Italy.

We would also like to explore Ice­land’s cen­tral regions in the future, which is only per­mit­ted with off-road four-wheel dri­ve vehi­cles. And final­ly, we would like to be more autonomous. At the beau­ti­ful Melanes camp­site in the West­fjords, for exam­ple, there were no sup­ply or dis­pos­al facil­i­ties and only a few pow­er points. It would not have been pos­si­ble to stay there for sev­er­al days with our basic motorhome.

That’s why we’ve got some­thing spe­cial planned for this Decem­ber: we’re going to rent a high­ly autar­kic 4x4 Mer­cedes Sprint­er van and spend two weeks explor­ing north­ern Italy. We’re already super excit­ed – and of course, we’ll be shar­ing more about it in future posts!