You first realise you’re visiting a country that’s quite unlike any other as you leave Iceland’s Keflavik airport and weave through an eerie, lunar-like landscape of black volcanic rock carpeted with green-brown moss.
My destination is The Retreat at Blue Lagoon – set amid one of Iceland’s most popular attractions once featured in National Geographic’s “25 Wonders of the World” – and as we walk into the huge lobby we’re met by a beautiful contrast of concrete walls softened by classic Scandinavian furniture and stylish design touches such as casual tables hewn from the surrounding volcanic rock.
