Having only arrived in Reykjavík a few weeks ago, I was pretty shocked while walking through downtown Reykjavík yesterday as it felt a bit like cruising around in a submarine, what with all the speakers blaring eerie whale noises along Lækjargata. Never…

Perhaps in the local toe-up, babenalysis of Ryan Gosling that surrounded his summer in Iceland, what many truly became inspired by (or infatuated with) were his feet. It is not with a great deal of pride that I write about Ryan Gosling’s…

In July of this year, Facebook added a “graph search” feature for English users in the US, however, this change affects every Facebook user (including Icelanders) as all public information including users’ location and the pages users “like” becomes easily searchable. Facebook…

Even though I‘ve lashed out online before about the appalling service in Reykjavík’s cafés, I was highly encouraged by my editor when I voiced my desire to write about it some more. We both live abroad over the winter and have perhaps…

I was sitting at Harpa the other day, and as the warmth of the sun rays coming through the huge glass surface made me sleepy, I drifted away from the conversation I was enjoying with my friends and casually eaves-dropped people at…

Do you know what really grinds my gears? Seeing developers tear down vibrant city hot spots like Nasa and Faktorý in order to build another stinking four star hotel. Don’t get me wrong, I understand hotels are in high demand with the…

I heard the other day that a foreigner living here thought for the longest time that Icelandic women naturally had black, pointy eyebrows. It was only later when she saw a woman getting her eyebrows dyed and shaped in a salon that…

When I emerged into the unwelcome exposure of 4:30 AM light on Sunday morning (a continuation of Saturday evening), I should have been ashamed of myself. My tights were torn, my lipstick was long-faded, and my hair was slicked back with sweat,…

Iceland is full of sad children. Not on the streets, or in the restaurants, but on the walls. Since arriving in Iceland a week ago, I’ve walked into a number of places where I’ve been face to face with a beautifully painted…

The first time I went looking for the Northern Lights here in Iceland was something of a learning experience. After about an hour of waiting outside, beachfront in Vesturbær, I learned why people here invest in wool socks. The next thing I…

By the time I finally set foot in Reykjavík, I had been traveling for about 24 hours and was running off of a disappointing oatmeal and a Payday bar. My main fuel throughout the trip had been the knowledge that I was…

If you’re based in Southern California, there are a lot of great weekend trips that you can take by car. It’s nearly impossible, however, to compare a trip to Las Vegas or Mammoth or San Francisco to one that involves driving the…

I thought I was good at Foosball. Then I moved to Iceland where I had my ass handed to me on a plate, several times a week. But not just on a plate, sometimes on platters, regularly on trays. Pretty much every…

If you’re not familiar with the Icelandic language, different words have a tendency to look and seem exactly the same, especially the ones on street signs. This is probably why I found myself completely lost on my first day here while looking…

It only came to my knowledge a couple of hours ago that Iceland’s recently selected Eurovision song, ‘Ég á líf’ sung by Eyþór Ingi Gunnlaugsson, was causing a lot of commotion, namely by bearing some striking resemblance to a delightful Canadian comedy…

You cannot find authentic Mexican food in Reykjavík. I’ve tried. It’s something I know. More importantly, it’s something I feel. I knew this the second a fellow ex-pat, who used to work in a now closed Mexican restaurant in the city, told…