Ian Hardie and Thorvaldseyri

Good to see the Rayburn Iceland Travel Guide getting an award at the recent SAGT Conference in the non-book category.

Ian was also featured in the SAGT magazine I blogged about previously. He has a house around 10 miles from the Eyjafjallajokull glacier, and was home during the eruption and had some incredible experiences observing the activity.
As it turns out Georgina Sawyer, a vulcanologist from Cambridge University, who accompanied the trip that we made last week, was also in the area and spent several weeks travelling up and down the roads to the south and west of the volcano collecting measurements of volcanic gases for her research.

Here's a picture of some of the ash from the eruption, along with tephra from earlier eruptions.
Picture taken near the Skogafoss waterfall.

Another place that I enjoyed visiting was the farm at Thorvaldseyri, where we met with Ólafur Eggertsson whose family had worked the land for generations.
He told us about the eruption, and the evacuation, and showed us some of the amazing photos he took that made it into the world's newspapers at the time.


Will blog further about the visit to Thorvaldseyri....

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Unknown said…
Hi, I'm Su-Min Hwang, a news producer at Korean Broadcasting System, London Bureau. KBS is a public broadcasting system of South Korea, an equivalent of BBC in the U.K.
We are currently working on a report on icelandic volcanoes, and would like to visit Thorvaldseyri to interview Olafur Eggertsson on the effects of the eruption on farming.
I have been searching everywhere online for a few days trying to get his contact details, but without much success...Then I came across your blog.
Would you know any ways I could talk to Mr Eggertsson? We are flying to Iceland soon so it would be great if we could get in contact with him before the flight.
Your help would be greatly appreciated, and I look forward to hearing from you soon.


Kind Regards,
Su-Min Hwang
kbslondon@kbs.co.kr