“The aurora borealis came up in front of us: swirls of green, twisting and arcing through the sky. That night, snuggled under warm blankets watching this northern light show play out, we felt about as far from home as it was possible to get.”
In December, Financial Times journalist Sophy Roberts and her family set out to discover the northwest fjords of Iceland, on an ambitious trip treading the feet of poets in times gone by: “I called a travel operator, Pelorus. I explained the book to them, with a request: I didn’t need to follow the poets’ exact path – Auden and MacNeice spent three months in Iceland – but it would be good to lean into the north-west and the spirit of their adventure.”
Pelorus set about planning an incredible trip – as our “expertise […] included setting up pop-up accommodation in ice caves and on glaciers”.