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The path of totality crosses the western part of Iceland and they hope to find a spot in the Westfjords peninsula to witness it.<\/p>\n
Although they’ve heard rumours of roads being closed to stop too many people overwhelming the area, so are keen to get there a couple of days before the spectacle.<\/p>\n
Samantha, who her husband describes as an “obsessive travel planner”, is all over the Facebook groups and social media pages being used by eclipse hunters to share information and advice.<\/p>\n
She’s expecting a good turnout given the number of eclipse glasses she’s seen people with in Iceland. “They’re really trying to prepare everybody,” she says.<\/p>\n
“What I expect, as we start inching westward, is we’re going to see more and more of them.”<\/p>\n
Andrew Wills is also going to an island to see the eclipse, albeit a much warmer one: Majorca.<\/p>\n
He’s travelling with his wife and his dad, who is 90. Father and son witnessed Europe’s last total solar eclipse together in 1999<\/a> while stood atop St Agnes Beacon in Cornwall.<\/p>\n The landmark, believed by some to be a Bronze Age bowl barrow, offers panoramic views across the Cornish countryside and out to the Atlantic. It was a cloudy day, remembers Andrew.<\/p>\n “We didn’t see the shadow rushing across the sea towards us, though we did see the dawn appearing and it getting closer very quickly,” he says. “It was awe-inspiring.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n