Hot, hot, hot

Perhaps we should have been in Iceland this week!According to today's Iceland Review Online , a heat wave has hit Iceland setting new temperature records ....Temperatures rose to 26.2°C in Retkjavik yesterday, which is an all-time record for Iceland’s capital. It has never been as warm in Reykjavík since temperatures were first registered 150 years ago. Other heat records were also broken yesterday.
In Thingvellir National Park in southwest Iceland temperatures went up to 29.7°C, which is also a new record. The last record was set in 2004 with 29°C. I took the photo above of Thingvellir on that day in 2004 when the last record was set.

Don't get too excited, though. The same article says “After next weekend it will turn colder again with wind from the north.”

Further to yesterday's posting, there's more to the Gordon Ramsay in Iceland story. He almost died when he slipped off a cliff and I certainly wouldn't gloat about that. But, apparently, a puffin also bit him on the nose.... mmm!!

P,S. Many thanks to my good friend Alan Parkinson (a Geography teacher in Norfolk who is very techno savvy) for helping me to get the new slideshow feature into the sidebar of the blog.