Last weekend we had a volcanic eruption here in Iceland. A place in Vatnajokull glacier called Grimsvotn had erupted with massive ash clouds bursting from the crater. Unfortunately this was no tourist show and the ash spread very far and like last year interrupted flight plans across Europe though not as seriously as last year.
When I woke up monday morning to go to the gym I too had a present waiting for me. The ash cloud had reached the capital of Iceland, Reykjavik, and the thin ash layer was over everything. I could only imagine what the people living close to the volcano were going through as they didn´t see the sun for two days and had to live in pitch darkness, walking around with goggles and masks to survive. A farmer even had to use a GPS device to...

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