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Charged For Adventure
“Hey, Tesla, take me to the Westfjords.” There are two types of people — those who love camping and those who don’t. Thinking about these polar opposites, I always recall a New Girl episode where Schmidt exclaims, “Camping?” to which Winston adds,…
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Rauðasandur On The List Of World’s Best Beaches
Rauðasandur in the Westfjords is among the best beaches in the world, according to Lonely Planet. Rauðasandur is featured on both the list of the best beaches in Europe and globally. Lonely Planet is one of the most respected travel guides globally,…
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Abandoned Iceland #15: Westfjords – Rauðasandur & Látrabjarg
Join Poppy Askham on a “tropical” Westfjords getaway to Rauðasandur, a beautiful copper-toned beach with an intriguing past and Iceland’s westernmost point – Látrabjarg, a 14km sea cliff, home to tens of thousands of seabirds. There’ll be puffins, seals and bucketfuls of…
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It’s Pronounced Breiðavík not Benidorm: A “Tropical” Westfjords Getaway
Bienvenido to the Costa de Westfjords. Swap sandals for hiking boots, bikinis for anoraks, and ice-cold sangria for flasks of steaming coffee. And for the love of god, give up on any dreams of a sun tan. Escape to the country…
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Best Of The Westfjords 2019: Must-See Spot
The Westfjords lie entirely outside of the Ring Road’s loop, making them one of the more remote corners of Iceland. The roads are carved into an endless sequence of vast flat-topped mountains punctuated by tiny towns in narrow fjords. At the northern…
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Best Of The Westfjords 2018: Best Road Trip
The Westfjords lie entirely outside of the Ring Road’s island-encompassing loop, making them one of the more remote corners of Iceland. The roads are carved into an endless sequence of vast flat-topped mountains punctuated by tiny towns in narrow fjords, often with…
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Rauðasandur Hiatus 2015
Much to the disappointment of countless music fans, the Rauðasandur Festival will not be held again this year. Rauðasandur has been an annual fixture for the past four years, but two of those four had to be moved to a nearby indoor-site…
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Weather Or Not
Red sands, yoga, seal-watching, camp games and nightly concerts in a barn—the only thing the organisers of Rauðasandur Festival couldn’t promise was good weather. The festival, held during the first weekend of July at a remote farm in the West Fjords, is…
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Rauðasandur Festival: It’s On!
The organisers of the Rauðasandur Music Festival have announced that despite some concern yesterday, thepotentially foul weather in the area has let up, and the schedule will go on as advertised! Due to yesterday’s concerns, the organisers of the steadily growing grassroots-festival had urged festivalgoers to camp by a community centre…