Reykjavik trip 1 Last March, I went to Reykjavik and stayed there for 9 days. It was my first solo travel to abroad in my life except I've been living in the UK since last year. I didn't even think of going to Reykjavik because I didn't know even the name of the city until I came across it at work. But the vastness and the beauty of its nature that I saw online was enough to attract me who finally made a decision to go there. Even the view from the plane was really amazing. The black rocks and the snow stretched out as far as the eye can see. I felt like I was landing on another planet, and I still remember I was excited a lot. I would say the feeling of astronauts might be like that. What I was surprised in Iceland at first is the unique weather. I'd heard the weather changes quickly like at mountains, however it was quite quicker and more frequent than I expected. Hailing, sunny, raining, sunny, snowing... every 10 minutes the weather changed. Also the wind! How strong it is! The strongest in this trip was in Black Sand Beach where located in the south coast. I thought I was used to strong winds as I grew up in Japan where a typhoon comes several times a year, but I found it was my vanity when arrived there. Sometimes I couldn't keep standing up because of the badly tough winds otherwise I would have be blown away into the rough sea! Still in this condition, the large basalt columns were amazingly fabulous. The heavy winds and the columns together succeeded in overwhelming me and I was impressed by their powerfulness and beauty.