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Backroads Bill Steer takes the backroads in Iceland

Bill Steer, founder of the Canadian Ecology Centre in Mattawa, ON, left his usual stomping grounds of northern Ontario to tour an even more remote landscape, that of Iceland.

Northern Ontario adventurer Bill Steer checks out what Iceland has to offer.

CBC Sudbury's outdoor columnist "Backroads" Bill Steer spent the last month of this year checking out the backroads of Iceland. 

"The scenery here is fantastic," he told Markus Schwabe on CBC Radio's Morning North out of Sudbury. 

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Bill Steer a.k.a. Backroads Bill joined us via Skype from Iceland this time around. That's where he'll be for the holidays. He told us about the landscape and the people there and a little bit about the weather conditions as well.

Steer made the trek north to meet up with his daughter who is studying in Ireland. 

Highlights of his trip include the penis museum, a visit with former Reykjavik mayor Jon Gnarr, Sven the Icelandic horse and the striking barren landscape of Iceland. 

Steer said for much of his tour he saw "no trees, no snow, no ice, no people."