Fragments of stone and turf booths on which representatives took their places can still be seen within park today. To get a good overview of area where assembly once gathered visitors should climb nearby cliff of Logberg. It is from here where some of most influential members of parliament would have addressed assembly.

Getting to Thingvellir

Thingvellir is 31km east of capital Reykjavik. International travellers should fly into Reykjavik airport and pick up a hire car. From airport it is advisable to travel eastwards on route 41 towards Reykjavik and then pick up route 36 towards Thingvellir National Park. Car hire can be booked in advance for pick up from airport at http://www.your-carhire.com

Berry Pomeroy Castle

Not far from Dartmoor National Park in Devon is haunted castle of Berry Pomeroy. Now a romantic ruin this 13th century castle is home to a number of ghostly happenings, most frequent of which is a sighting of a White Lady. She appears in dark dungeons below castle and on top of castle ramparts, her apparition being reported as recently as 1987. The White Lady is thought to be spirit of Margaret Pomeroy who was imprisoned in dungeons by her sister and made to slowly starve to death.