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Best Of Reykjavík Activities 2024: Best Day Trip
You’ve had your five a day (veggies/beers/panic attacks), now you gotta stay active. Whether it’s to get a dose of culture, hopping on a day tour or splashing around in your municipal pool, you can’t go wrong with our picks for Best…
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The Underwater Cathedral Of Ice, Rock And Light: Diving Daviðsgjá
As the frigid lake swirls around and envelops you, it‘s not unusual to experience a sharp involuntary intake of breath. And as you slip below the surface a serene peace washes over you, delivering you from the turbulent world above. Welcome to…
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Volcanoes, Glaciers & Other Wonders: The Best Iceland Day Trips
So, you’ve come to Reykjavík, the elf-infested city of glacial whalesong dreams. Let’s assume you’ve noticed by now that pretty much every second plot of land in the city centre is currently a building site coughing out clouds of dust to a…
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Artist Talk: Designer Ágústa Sveinsdóttir
At DesignMarch 2016, Ágústa and Elísabet Karlsdóttir—who together make up the powerful design team ALVARA—presented a jewelry line called ‘Silfra’. In December they launched their second collaborative project, the clothing line USELESS. We asked Ágústa about her recent work and working as…
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Swimming In Silence: A Scintillating Snorkel Between Continents In The Silfra Fissure
Even in a town as small and quiet as Reykjavík, it’s still easy to get caught up in daily urban stresses: Drinking too much caffeine, staying up too late, and djamming a little too hard. What can someone do to wind down…
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Child To Dive Between Tectonic Plates In Iceland
A 13-year-old girl from the UK will be the youngest ever to dive in the Silfra fissure, in Þingvellir National Park. The Independent reports that Charlotte Burns has received permission from the Icelandic government to make the dive. While normally the legal…
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Snorkelling in Between Two Continents
Mother Earth is a stable, solid rock – that has always been something I was sure of. Walking on this special piece of earth called Iceland, this fundamental certainty vanishes. Observing erupting volcanoes and hot steam leaking out of the mountains, I…
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Snorkelling In Long Underwear And Thick Socks
School’s out, work’s off and Spring Break has finally arrived. Like countless others with the same ideas of escape, I fled the city for a nice snorkelling destination. Only this was going to be nothing like that infamous image of Spring Break…