After dinner last night we drove out of Reykjavik into the north. After about an hour we got out and looked skywards but there was quite a lot of high cloud and a full moon lighting up the clouds. We journeyed further where the driver could do so more off roading and bounced along a track where we got out again. This time the sky was much more clear but after an hour or so of waiting, still no lights. We joined the highway back to the city and as it was now one a.m. We decided to call it a night as we have to be out of the hotel by eight in the morning. On the way back Arni had kept looking out while everyone slept. Suddenly he said something and the driver pulled over into a lay by.
The sight of twenty two teenagers bounding out of a bus and armed with cameras must have seriously alarmed the courting couple in the Ford Escort who's seclusion we had interrupted. Anyway he drove off at high speed whilst uttering some words that Arni assured me didn't warrant translation, leaving us to gaze up at the northern lights shimmering across the sky. The five-hour chase was worth every minute. One or two people got photo's but I've got no way of getting them onto here until we're home.
The northern lights are spectacular, even on a cloudy, moonlit night.
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