Fire and Ice: Iceland is good for golf and good for the soul

Kevin Markham visits Iceland and discovers a natural health supplement with rejuvenation properties

The Iceland Air flight from Reykjavik to Akureyri lasts 40 minutes. Below, the interior of this small country is desolate and two-tone, the black mountains and volcanoes piercing through blankets of snow, their slopes trapping the snow in crevasses hidden from the sun.

This is the Iceland one imagines and the shadow of the 30-seater plane skims across a landscape where no house or road exists.