Lee Cowan takes you off the coast of Iceland on a midnight mission that's become a tradition for all involved. It's called the Puffling Patrol, a group of volunteers lending the tiniest of helping ...

Slippurinn serves a dish guillemot eggs, a local delicacy, in their shells (Credit: Gunnar Freyr Gunnarsson) On the small island of Heimaey, chef Gísli Matthías Auðunsson is at the helm of a food ...

THIS beautiful town was destroyed by a huge volcanic eruption and now its ghostly ruins have started to emerge through the debris. “As my boat left the harbour, the fissure opened up, and flames burst ...

Helga Jonsdottir still remembers in vivid detail the day her island home was swallowed by a volcano as she and her family joined others fleeing the molten lava. “As my boat left the harbor, the ...

Our expedition ship sails cautiously into Vestmannaeyjar harbour. On one side of its narrow dogleg opening, sheer cliffs are patrolled by seabirds. On the other side, North Atlantic waves surge ...

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. In the shadow of a blood-red volcano on a remote island off the southern coast of Iceland, a museum dubbed “the ...