article_snippet.sent: I visit my parents,’ I thought to myself.
article_snippet.sent: The next morning, I dragged myself out of bed for a Viking-style cooking class at Salt Eldhus where I learned to cook barley risotto and salt and pepper salmon – the perfect way, as it turned out, to fortify me for the dramatic scenery that came next.
article_snippet.sent: Awe-inspiring: Geysir is home to a row of geysers that fire boiling water and a sulphurous stench into the air .
article_snippet.sent: The site of Iceland first parliament, The site of Iceland’s first parliament’s a short hop from Geysir, where a series of geysers explode in a shower of boiling water and revolting sulphurous stench every five minutes or so.
article_snippet.sent: At the next one, I held my nerve, looking smugly round at the tourists who had been caught on a short hop from Reykjavik like I had been.
article_snippet.sent: Then came a trip to Friðheimar, a series of greenhouses filled with tomato plants and set next to a stable crammed with hairy Icelandic ponies.