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Following The Weather North: Holiday Weekend In And Around Húsavík
When Verslunarmannahelgi, aka Merchant’s Weekend, aka the last public holiday before Christmas, rolled around in the beginning of August, I did what most Icelanders do that weekend: followed the weather and got the hell out of town. While the capital was drowning…
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Changing Tides In Bathing Culture
Or: how I learned to stop worrying and love the spa That floating around in hot water is good for you is a universally recognised truth. Wherever in the world there’s natural hot water, people hop in — from the peaceful sentō of…
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It’s Spa O’Clock — Here’s Where to Get Your Soak On
In the past few years, a particularly entrepreneurial spirit has swept the country, inspiring millionaires of all stripes in the throes of religious epiphanies to begin monetizing Iceland’s geothermal springs into dark castles devoted to the worship of cosiness. Where locals and…
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Isolated Iceland: The Splendid Solitude Of The North
Northern Iceland—where landscape, sea and sky converge just south of the Arctic Circle—is as far north as many of us will ever get to travel. I recently based myself in the northern coastal town of Húsavík for a few days, exploring the…
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Húsavík Town Guide: Its All About The Views
When I first visited Húsavík in 2016 Northern Iceland felt like the edge of the world to me. Coming from a densely populated area in Germany—the city I grew up in had twice as many inhabitants as Iceland’s entire population—I had never…
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The Hot Sea: GeoSea Geothermal Baths Open In Húsavík
On a grassy hilltop at the edge of the small northern town of Húsavík, a brand new state-of-the-art bathing facility called the GeoSea geothermal sea baths recently opened its doors. Situated a twenty-minute walk from the town centre next to an old-school…