Postcard from Ice and Fire

In the course of his 'day job', your Editor this week spent a couple of days driving in the southern highlands of Iceland, as part of a Land Rover expedition to show how the Discovery 3 can hack it in hard places.



It was my first time there, and blooming mind-blowing! Every time the convoy turned a corner or came over the crest of a hill, there was something else to generate another 'wow!'.



The terrain was a mixture of snowfields and lava fields, and a lot of rivers to ford, as well as some highway driving to get there and back. You'll get to read about it in full detail in the November issue of 'Irish Car', but until I recover from the sensory overload, a few of these pictures are worth looking at.



Iceland is known as the 'Land of Ice and Fire', and where you see me writing a bit of this piece on the bonnet of a Disco, we've driven to the top of a glacier, which at its deepest point underneath us was 790 metres of ice.



And underneath that, a throbbing volcano, which is overdue for its regular eruption ... any time between now and the next three years, that particular glacier is likely to disappear in a storm of fire and lava.



Brian Byrne.