Volcano.

Stacey and I (and our friend Kelly) came to Iceland for a few days for a quick vacation. We’re hoping to see the northern lights, which are apparently relatively active this time of year. We haven’t quite seen any aurora yet (I’ll tell that story in another post), but we did see a big dang volcanic eruption. We figured out after the fact that the volcano erupted not long after we landed at the Reykjavik airport. The eruption was visible from our rental car for several miles of our trip out of town.

I managed to get a couple of photos of the eruption with my phone, but they don’t do it justice. The volcano is a lot more epic in person.

A not great photo of the Icelandic volcano taken from a few miles away.

The Guardian has more details about the Iceland volcano. Plus better photos and some video.

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