Ah the Aurora! I visited Iceland in November 2004 for the express purpose of seeing the Aurora. After nearly two weeks there, and having seen nothing of the Northern Lights, I became resigned to my 'fate' and rather stoical. However after leaving a restaurant one night (in, I think, Stykisshólmur), I looked up and there was the most magnificent display of the Aurora. The local Icelanders must have though “Here’s another barmy tourist”, from the way my jaw had dropped and I was just mesmerised by the magnificence and beauty of the phenomenon.