Discovering Iceland with Discover the World and Mission:Explore

I've spent quite a lot of the last few weeks working on a project which we announced a month or so ago.
The Geography Collective is working with Discover the World. The travel company has a school travel arm, a well as offering a range of adventure travel holidays.
The missions have headed off to Helen and Tom to be designed up and have the illustrations added in, before we start the edits and drafting and fleshing out some sections.
The plan is that they will be available for schools booking to go to Iceland with Discover the World in 2013.

There's a rather fabulous range of Iceland videos on VIMEO and just found a new one...
Thanks to Anne Greaves


Fragments of Iceland from Lea et Nicolas Features on Vimeo.

While doing research for the booklet, I've been finding out ever more about the country, which will make its way onto my (secretish) Niceland Iceland blog eventually. This will be added to over the next few months as we work on the final booklet.

• If an Icelandic horse leaves the country it can never return, and no horses are allowed into Iceland
• The amazing ice lagoon at Jokulsarlon is less than 80 years old...
• Icelanders are listed by their first names in the telephone book (assuming such a thing still exists)

Update
The latest December e-mailer newsletter from Discover the World has 5 sample missions to whet your appetite for the final booklet