Many people have asked us how we’re managing to live out of Lottie for four months, let alone transform her into a mobile studio every evening when we knuckle down to the business of editing footage. For those petrol heads following us, here’s a list of the ways in which…
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Given that we are trying to understand the impact a fault line can have on people’s lives, our journey wouldn’t be complete without a visit to the astonishing Mount Parnassus along the Corinth Rift – a fault line that has potentially influenced more people’s lives than can ever be imagined,…
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Greece is one of the most seismically active countries in the world. It is riddled with fault lines and frequently experiences earthquakes. We visited the town of Nafpaktos, near the Corinth – Patras rift which experienced a 5.1m earthquake in January this year. We talked to some of the local…
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Good bye Italy. We wanted to stay longer but the port of Brindisi isn’t somewhere you’d want to hang around long in. We did however meet the fascinating Jojo Was Noch who was transporting racing horses from Germany to Iran. He gave us lots of advice about what to expect…
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Washing blows in the wind long since dried, a child’s toy lies abandoned in a pile of rubble, an entire bathroom hangs at an impossible angle from a decimated apartment block. On every street corner are the haunting signs of a city abandoned in minutes, as people fled their houses…
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The seismometer we’re carrying around with us has be to be single heaviest thing we own, especially given how small it is. It also happens to resemble a small bomb, so we won’t be taking it into Iran. When we first set off, we naively imagined we’d be doing a…
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Our aim all along has been to shun motorways and get as close as possible to fault lines themselves. Little did we expect, however, to be able to bed down in the crater of a volcano, our mats gently warmed by the earth below, inhaling air that has been proven…
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A while ago back in Iceland with met up with Sandra, the trainee tattoo-artist cum earthquake expert. She was helping run the earthquake centre in Kopasker. Watch this clip for a younger person’s perspective:
As some of you know already, we met these lovely people on the geo-thermal beach in Reykjavik and talked to them about life on a fault line. We’ve now had the chance to turn our chat with them into a short clip, which has to be one of our favourite…
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We’ve been eating like kings here in Iceland. Beautiful lamb, salmon, trout, all readily available at remote petrol stations, and then barbecued to perfection by Serena. Yummy. But breakfast has been another matter – usually consisting of a couple of biscuits and a strong coffee before we pack up Lottie…
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Some of our more avid readers may have noticed we are a tad heavy on the geography and a little light on people. This is because we are filming all the interviews we are doing and it takes time to edit, upload and post this stuff. So please bear with…
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Out of everything we’ve been looking forward to visiting, Eyjafjallajokull was top of our list in Iceland. This is the volcano that erupted in March this year, causing complete chaos and disaster for Icelanders and Brits alike. I’m not sure what we were expecting, but it wasn’t this: The crater…
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So far we’ve come across geo-thermal energy being harnessed to generate electricity, bake bread, make cinder blocks, de-ice pavements and heat water for swimming pools. As we drove east of Reykjavik, we came across yet another example of the earth’s natural energy being used creatively by the Icelanders – rows…
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It’s difficult not to get blase about the way in which Icelanders harness their geo-thermal energy. Everywhere we go are steaming vents or hissing rocks that stopped us in our tracks when we initially came across them. However, a project like ours wouldn’t be complete without a trip to the…
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As well as talking to people wherever we go, we’ve been seeking out the most dramatic points in the landscape that demonstrate the fault line. Nowhere are the two plates that have created Iceland more obvious and the geography more tangible than at Thinvellir, which is precariously situated on the…
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One of our more nerve-racking days. The long bone-shaking drive through the interior came to an end and we reached Hekla – one of Iceland’s most active volcanoes, also known as the ‘Gateway to Hell’. It has erupted over 20 times, and is surrounded by miles and miles of lava…
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As soon as we get on the road we stop. There’s just so much to see here, it’s crazy. Around every bend is another hot spring or volcano. We drive for miles and miles over twisted lava fields and endless black deserts. Sometimes it feels like we are in Mongolia….
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One of the areas we have always been keen to explore is whether or not there can be a positive side to living on a fault line. This is obviously a delicate area, and one that requires careful negotiation. However, today we came across three brilliant, if somewhat different examples…
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On our second night in Iceland as soon as we set up camp, we got out our seismometer. Iceland can experience up to 80 earthquakes a day, so there was a very good chance we might record one. Paul Denton from the British Geological Survey has loaned us two portable…
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Geologically speaking, Fault Line Living truly began today with us visiting the dramatic ‘start’ of the fault line we are following in Iceland – the Mid-Atlantic Ridge – a massive 18,000 km rift between two of the earth’s major tectonic plates. We visited the point at which the ridge enters…
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We’ve been on the ferry to Iceland for two days now. I think it’s safe to say we’ve all got cabin fever. This has been our entertainment: This afternoon the ferry pulled up at the ruggedly beautiful Faeroes Islands in the middle of the North Atlantic Sea, population of 48,000….
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We couldn’t wish for a better place for our first night trying out our camping kit. We hit gold with a beautiful campsite in Bjerregard – on the sweeping, wind-surfers paradise coast of West Denmark. Lovely friendly people who looked on with friendly faces as we attempted to set up…
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After the big hullaballoo of us leaving – tears were shed, Lottie was christened with some lovely Rose Cava, and some of our closest friends turning up to wave us off, we found ourselves in the distinctly unglamorous dock otherwise known as Harwich International Port. To be honest, even though…
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This evening we packed up Lottie, and then unpacked her, four times. Yikes. We’ve got so much stuff it’s unfunny. The person sitting on the back seat is so squashed in with bags that they can’t really move or breathe properly, let alone be a useful passenger (help navigate, edit…
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Iyrie created this special mix for us to listen to en route.
Today was an extra special shiny day. A bit like Christmas. Better even, because today we went to Land Rover’s Head Quarters and picked up our Landy – name still to be decided (come to our fundraising event tonight and if you’ve bought the winning raffle ticket you get to…
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It’s not the most obvious of prizes to fund raise for a 15,000-mile expedition, but in order to give our party a slightly more homely feel, Serena decided we might raise a few more pennies by making some Jam. Yes, you read it right. Jam. Of the Strawberry and Raspberry…
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One of the highlights so far. All three of us went to Land Rover Experience at Eastnor Castle, where Land Rover have access to the 5000 acres of mud tracks, steep hills, rivers, and forests at the foot of the Malverns Hills. Here we got to experience the Defender in…
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Day one at Land Rover Experience. See if you can spot the bit where one of us has a little driving ‘wobble’…
