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- This writer went on a campervan trip to Iceland in the dead of winter over the New Years holiday of 2020. She writes about why this was a bad idea – yet how it changed her as a traveller.
- “I can’t wait to see snow for the first time!”
- “Even the locals wouldn’t campervan in winter”
- Diarrhea in a blizzard
- Can you get frostbite on your eyeballs?!
- “Where are you, Aurora?”
- We are the crazy ones
“I can’t wait to see snow for the first time!”
Expectation: Elza as Elsa
Nikita Cosplay photoReality: Elza as Olaf
Firstly, let me state for the record that this was NOT my idea. My man wanted to celebrate his birthday and New Years in Iceland because what better way to ring in the new decade, amirite? So what if I’ve never experienced temperature below 0°C. Adventure is out there!

