We travel from Reykjavík to South Iceland where we take a short ferry ride to the Westman Islands. There is a bus and walking tour of the village of Heimaey and this extraordinary island.

An exhibition focusing on the 1973 volcanic eruption in Vestmannaeyjar which forced the entire population, of over 5000 people, to evacuate the island on a moment's notice in the middle of the night. Many of them lost their homes and belongings, some never returned to Heimaey.

We walk up to the volcano crater from the 1973 eruption.