How Iceland suddenly became a hotspot for holidays It's about as far as you get from a classic fly and flop, but there's a quirky charm in its volatile geology and experimental pop culture 11 May 2021 • 10:56am Iceland, with its lunarscapes and geological spendlour, caters as much for the luxury set as it does the adrenaline-seekers Credit: Getty Oh, dearest Iceland, frozen saga of the north, you made it onto our green list, so I’m prepared to forgive you now for four miserable nights sleeping rough in Delhi Airport. As surely as coronavirus has scuppered travel dreams, I still recall Eyjafjallajökul volcano egregiously spewing clouds of airplane engine-stopping ash into the atmosphere back in 2010, leaving millions of passengers, myself included, stranded worldwide, desperately trying to rebook cancelled flights to get back home.