In the week when we had another casualty on the black sand beach, the Reykjavik Grapevine's editor Jón Trausti Sigurðarson has written about "tourism fatigue" in Vik.
Over 5000 people a day visit the small town in the season (including me on every trip with Rayburn). These have overloaded the town's toilet facilities.
Iceland is vast. It is 30% bigger than Ireland, with roughly 7% of that country’s population. So much of this island is “empty”. Unpopulated fjords are numerous, the highlands are all but empty. If you want solitude, it’s everywhere. You only have to walk a few hundred metres in almost any direction from a popular tourist destination and find yourself alone
Image: The road to Vik - Alan Parkinson - shared on Flickr under CC license
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