May 27th 2021, 13:48
The spotlight is on Iceland this summer as the destination is added to the UK’s green list, writes Katie McGonagle
Iceland is unlikely to have featured in your top-selling summer spots before. Travellers flock to its volcanic landscapes in search of soft adventure, the northern lights and perhaps a dip in the Blue Lagoon, but bucket-and-spade holidays? No chance.
Now, thrust into the spotlight thanks to its inclusion as one of just three available destinations on the UK’s travel green list, it might be this Nordic country’s moment to shine with holidaymakers who would not have considered it before.
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Oh, dearest Iceland, frozen saga of the north, you made it onto our green list, so I’m prepared to forgive you now for four miserable nights sleeping rough in Delhi Airport. As surely as coronavirus has scuppered travel dreams, I still recall Eyjafjallajökul volcano egregiously spewing clouds of airplane engine-stopping ash into the atmosphere back in 2010, leaving millions of passengers, myself included, stranded worldwide, desperately trying to rebook cancelled flights to get back home.
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