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Home To The Loneliest Hotel In The World
Djúpavík, like many places in the Westfjords of Iceland, feels close to the edge of the world. Formerly a busy fishing town, the herring processing plant that dominates the area lies silent, long since...
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A School For The Beer-Curious
In a small lecture hall doubling as a private bar, twenty men raise their glasses and have a big gulp of Egils Gull as Stefán “Stebbi” Pálsson begins the bjórskólinn (“beer school”) curriculum. The...
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Trading Reykjavík For Hornafjörður Reindeer
The novelty of a reindeer tour in the Icelandic countryside is the novelty of almost all ‘tours’ that take place in the Icelandic countryside: being in those pockets of remote beauty and getting the...
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Don’t Forget to Breathe: Swimming The Winter Sea
“You don’t have to be crazy to go swimming in the sea, but it helps.” So says the man sitting next to me in the hot tub at Nauthólsvík, Reykjavík’s Geothermal beach. We’re facing out toward the...
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Powder Galore At Hlíðarfjall Ski Resort
My travel companion Frosti and I are flying into Akureyri to spend the weekend snowboarding at Hlíðarfjall. Thankfully, we touch down safely. We park our asses in a warm, red Yaris rental car and make...
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Just Out Of Plain Sight: Laugarvatn - Exploring The Well Kept Secrets Of...
Exploring The Well Kept Secrets Of LaugarvatnI’m huddled over the steering wheel peering out from behind rapidly jerking windshield wipers as sprays of rain lash out across the glass. The car bounces...
View ArticleThe Bright Side Of The Storm: Sheltered in Arnastapi - From Low Point to...
From Low Point to Highlight in ArnarstapiIn spite of the weather, we’d managed to make something out of the morning. We’d had that hot spring all to ourselves, and successfully followed our little...
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From Heavenly Lakes to Hell’s Gates: Seeing Northern Iceland - A daytrip to...
A daytrip to Mývatn in Iceland’s snowy NorthSeeing Iceland from the air can be an astounding experience. From the soft blue-grey washes of coastal estuaries and floodwater plains, to black flatlands...
View ArticleAkureyri: Home Comforts And Cosmopolitan Culture - A Weekend of Art, Food,...
A Weekend of Art, Food, Music, and Culture in AkureyriAkureyri, located on Iceland’s longest fjord, Eyjafjörður, is often referred to as Iceland’s second city, or “the capital of the North.” With a...
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Iceland In Miniature: Snæfellsnes - Best Day Trip From Reykjavík: The...
Best Day Trip From Reykjavík: The Snæfellsness PeninsulaHaving planned to spend much of this summer—my first summer in Iceland, in fact—gallivanting around the country, I’ve instead spent most of my...
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A Sunny World: Ecovillage Sólheimar
If you happen to be cruising down a valley-snaking road about an hour’s drive east of Reykjavík, there’s a chance you’ll curl around a grassy embankment and notice, nestled among rolling hills,...
View ArticleIn The Giant Redwood Forests Of Iceland - Can the Icelandic Forest Service...
Can the Icelandic Forest Service restore the nation's long-lost tree cover?Visitors to Iceland seem to have no interest in the island’s forests. Instead, they delight in the volcanoes, glaciers, hot...
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Over The Glacier: Ice Hiking On Vatnajökull
Vatnajökull is the second largest glacier in all of Europe, covering 8% of Iceland’s land mass and dominating the southeast corner of the country. Visible only on clear days, the glacier’s peak sits...
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Winter Westfjords And The Art Of Zen: Isafjörður In November - Learning to...
Learning to lose control on the outskirts of Iceland...When I set off on a Westfjords adventure in early November, I never expected it to be such an educational experience. But, it was. What I learned...
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Yule Year-Round: Visting Jólagarðurinn - A visit to the Jólagarður
A visit to the JólagarðurThis fall, while planning my first trip up North, I messaged a friend of mine who had gone to secondary school in Akureyri and asked him for a few choice recommendations. “The...
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Aurora Over Ísafjörður - Wow. A tranquil night, that was
Wow. A tranquil night, that wasLook. Early evening, December 27, Second Day Of Christmas, the good people of Ísafjörður were momentarily torn from the comfort of their couches and boardgames and...
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Redesigning Tourism: The Skálanes Nature Reserve - At the Skálanes nature...
At the Skálanes nature reserve, a quiet revolution is happeningGetting to the Skálanes nature reserve, which sits at one of the easternmost points of Iceland, is an adventure in itself. After taking an...
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