A couple of years ago, the wife and I went off for a six-day trip to Iceland. For three days, we were on the southeastern coastal area....near Grindavik.
There's not a lot to drag a person to Grindavik. It's quiet. There's one single restaurant in the town, and one decent hotel.
I remember three key things about the town: (1) if you want a decent coffee at 6 AM, about the only place is the local gas station, and it's the cheapest-made stuff you can imagine. (2) The hotel had heavy-extra-duty curtains, which you need in July because the sun is still blasting away at midnight, and rises by 2 AM. (3) The hotel manager gal had a dozen different piercings on various noticeable parts of her body, and you had to push yourself to not gaze too hard to see the non-noticeable parts with piercings.
This past week or two....I've noticed the town in the news a fair bit. There's been serious volcanic activity there. We are talking about spewing out, and lava flows going on.
If you drive south south out of the Keflavik Airport...one single road...for about 25 minutes, you reach Grindavik.
All of this curtailing tourism? No one says much. But I would imagine more than a quarter-million Americans have never seen an active volcano, and they'd easily hop on some passenger jet to go spend five or six days gazing at volcanic eruptions and sipping beer off some hotel patio.
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