How to ruin your holiday!

I thought I would share a realisation with you all. NEVER believe car manufacturers that tell you that your car is a 4x4 unless it actually looks and behaves like a 4x4. Just because all 4 tyres are powered, it does not mean you should drive it into a river. Please see the attached photograph as a means of illustrating this...

You should also NEVER strip down to your black underpants regardless of how deep an Icelandic river is to recover your car unless you wish people to "take the piss".

In the end the Rescue team had to pull it out and a recover lorry had to be sent. The car was a Ford Cougar automatic and the male driver had already damaged the car on one of our other fords (he didn't seem amused by the section of plastic floating in the waterfall ford). It seems likely that he hit one of the large rocks in the ford and the car stalled and started filling with water.