By Bethan Lidgey
ICELAND
I went to Iceland in the February half term. It was very different to the UK because obviously the temperature was so different. As soon as we stepped outside of the airport my whole family got really excited not just because we were going to have so many adventures but because we had just stepped out into snow! We got onto the bus ready to start our adventure. We went exploring in Reykjavik (the capital of Iceland). Iceland is really expensive. Icelandic Krona is 0.0056 of a British pound. We then managed to find our way back to the hotel. Our apartment was ready and had a name that was really hard to pronounce and spell! We were in a flat with a garden. We built a snowman of Pleakly (a one eyed alien from Lilo and Stitch).
We spent the next day exploring and shopping. We found a shop which had a slide from the upstairs going down into the kids’ section.
In the evening we went on a trip to see the Northern Lights. We were told to go and stand in a field and wait. After about 1 hour of waiting we got called back to the coaches and got taken to a different location. We didn’t see them at either place and just when we were giving up hope the sky lit up! The sky lit up in greens, blues and purples. We managed to get lots of colours in our display and were extremely lucky. We had a really late night and didn’t get in to the apartment until around 1 o’clock in the morning. Iceland and the UK and have no time zone difference which is good because you don’t get jet lag.