A Brief Touch On Iceland

I've just come back from a mini trip in the Icelandic lands and I just wanted to touch on a few things I've taken from the trip.

For starters, the place in beautiful. Barren, earthy and raw.
The colours of the earth and sea is something that I'll always remember. Jet black sands with speckles of brown and grey, the yellow grass and green moss covered rocks, pristine white snow and the sky that goes from deep grey, to baby blue and then pink and orange at the start of the sunset.

Iceland was a place that completely stilled my mind and headspace. The thoughts that ran through my head on the whole trip were only 'in the moment' thoughts, without any hang ups of life outside of our perfect little trip to the mountains.

We saw waterfalls that you could walk underneath the sheer power and volume of its movements, glaciers that covered huge areas and produced such incredible aqua colours and silence, mountains that were built up of layer upon layer of different coloured rock and soil, roads that seemed to have no ending and no destination, beaches covered in beautiful ice boulders that have broken away from the glaciers and ended up washed onto the shores of the black sanded beaches and thermal heated pools of baby blue.

The place was just still, silent and magical. I can't really explain it in any other words.
I felt as if my lungs were filled with the cleanest air, cleaner than anything I've inhaled before.

It was an expensive place, paying around £8 a pint and £25 a meal. Petrol you could only pay for on card and day light only between the hours on 10am-5pm. But this made no difference to the beauty of the place.


Tips if you're planning a trip to Iceland...

1. Take more money than you think you need.
2. Pre book the Blue Lagoon a good 4/5 days before the day you want to visit.
3. Sod booking onto tours to see the natural wonders, rent a car and do it yourself.
4. Go with someone that wants to get the same as you want out of your trip (which goes for any destination or place!)
5. Take some decent boots and a warm coat.
6. Go in winter, Its so beautiful!
7. Drive from Keflavik to the Diamond Beach.
8. Never think that you wont see the northern lights, because we saw them two nights in a row!
9. Prepare for the water to sometimes smell like sulphur when you're showering, no you don't really smell that bad!
10. DONT scoop up a load of silica from the bottom of the Blue Lagoon because you'll probably find human hair like we did!
11. Go with an open mind and come back with a clear one.

My Personal Thoughts On Drugs

Following on from my post I wrote a while ago on my personal views on alcohol, I figured that its only fair that I write one on this subject.

So, drugs huh. Funny subject.. I've been meaning to write about this subject for a while now because its something that I've never really experienced. I mean, I don't drink, I've never even tried a cigarette in my whole twenty four years of life, heck have I tried drugs.
Well alright, that's a lie.. I've tried weed very briefly on a rooftop over looking the NYC skyline. Despite the setting being pretty outstanding, it was shit. I just felt sick, and then was sick the next day. I've also tried a legal high, very briefly in Brighton. God only knows what it was but again, it was shit.
I have pretty strong views on alcohol so it's only expected I share the similar hate for drugs. Well, yes. I don't like drugs very much but then like I said.. I've not really been introduced to them or found myself experimenting with them.

Now, hallucinogenic drugs totally fascinate me in how they are able to unlock these different parts of the brain and make you experience these weird and sometimes wonderful trips. I don't know if I would ever go as far as trying any other drugs because they scare me, but I am interested in what it would be like to trip and hallucinate.

Disclaimer, I don't really know what I'm talking about so if I write something that isn't correct or whatever then just ignore it yeah?

Alright, the low down is that drugs make me feel uncomfortable. I'm talking the hard drugs.. I'm not talking about weed. Weed I don't have a problem with, until it takes over somebody's life and they become dependant on it and it starts to make them paranoid and not themselves. That's when any substance becomes a problem, and I'm not a lover of any substance really. I get really uncomfortable at the idea of being out of control, which is why I don't really like being drunk or seeing people I care about totally off their faces.

I see the effects on drugs a lot in the job that I do and its heart breaking seeing the harsh reality of it. Something that one minute can make you feel on top of the world and as soon as it wears off, lower than low. Left with nothing, literally. Taking these chemicals to erase harsh memories of the past. A sad, scary reality in some cases that I've seen. That's the really sad side of what I see in drugs and people can take them for a number of reasons. Out of boredom, peer pressure, to heighten the dynamic of a night out or social event, to cover up the pain of a memory or on-going issue, to ease physical pain as well as mental.

My view on using drugs for social events is a tricky one, I can see the want to exaggerate emotions and feelings but I personally think that its covering up reality in a way. Good times come about from being around good people and good conversation in a positive atmosphere. It saddens me that some people find it near impossible to enjoy a night out or social gathering without being completely off their face. You shouldn't need a substance to have a top night in my eyes anyway.
Saying all this.. and again I'm not saying I'd try it because its highly unlikely but I am kind of curious as to what it would feel like to be high.

It's mostly pills, cocaine and other "un-natural" substances that freak me out, not so much things like shrooms, weed and truffles etc. that are extracted from the earth. But putting those hard chemicals into your body and blood stream. Our bodies aren't made for that shit surely.

Anyway.. I don't really want to go on and on about this subject only because I feel I don't know enough on it to really comment. 

There it is.