To Disappear in Nature

Iceland, August 2018

Audun , Chief Editor of the norwegian magazine Vagant , proposed to start a series of travel reportages discovering all the places in the northern hemisphares affected by the Gulf Stream. So we decided to begin with this volcanic place of outstanding beauty.

Unfortunately i went off travelling from Berlin already with a huge cold which did not get any better during the five day hike from Landmannalaugur to Skogar on the Laugavegur Trail going through all weather stages but mostly  rain, fog and ice cold winds. I was amazed how the body works , getting stronger and fitter every day despite this cough and gripal infection. We stayed in huts though as camping would have killed me this time.

I am impressed by the well equiped co-hikers in their colourful functional clothing and backpacks. I forgot to take waterproof trousers , so wearing yoga pants that drops all the water into my old leather boots, becoming soaking wet almost every day. But hey , getting wet is normal says an icelandic lady in a hut. This is Iceland!

When i started doing these trips with my ex husband twenty four years ago in Transsilvania,  he taught me how to dissapear in nature wearing natural colours and having the minimum of things all tight up in your backpack without unnecessary items hanging around all over the place.

I walk steadily like an old Diesel motor in same pace uphill without pauses whereas Audun walks fast and stops every now and then to flirt with nature, taking notes or seldomly smoking a self rolled cigarette and sometimes loosing the trail. He is a Viking from Norway.

Salve