Life in Technicolor

“Time came a-creeping | Oh and time’s a loaded gun | Every road is a ray of light | It goes on | Time'll leak and lead you on | Still it's such beautiful night” (Life in Technicolor II by Coldplay, 2008). Sometime around midnight, the impossibly beautiful – and unpronounceable – canyon in the Icelandic highlands known as the Valley of Tears erupts into the full spectrum of colour. The journey is long and bumpy and the weather cold and windy, but the cobalt blue river, green moss and colourful sunset make amends. This was the last day of a superb highlands trip in July 2020; a beautiful night.