By Alan Turton
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One February, about 10 years ago, we took a short break to Iceland staying in Reykjavik and taking trips out around the island. We did all the tourist trips that included visiting the hot pools where you can bathe in the open air where the temperature was about freezing, yet the water was as warm as a bath. We also took the Golden Circle coach tour visiting the spectacular rift valley where Europe touches America, the original named Geyser and the magnificent Gullfoss Falls that were frozen at that time. The highlight of the tour for me was an evening coach trip to a car park at a service station about 10 miles outside Reykjavik. There was nothing special about the site, it was quite unspectacular, yet the sky was dark enough to see a spectacularly clear night sky. On time, as predicted by the tour guide, the sky changed colour and was filled with wonderful dancing curtains of green and red.
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