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G! Festival: The Eternal Twilight of a Sparkling Mind
It’s five in the morning and I’m just rolling back to Siggi and Rúnar’s sailboat-slash-home away from home, which sits on the dock on the easternmost side of the Faeroe Islands village of Gøta. The first day of the G! Festival has…
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It’s Worth The Drive To Hveravellir
It’s a long and arduous drive through the rocky and oft barren interior of the country. Unpaved, unkempt, deeply rutted, rock strewn roads force driving speeds near the single digits for ill equipped vehicles and will put a 4×4’s shock absorbers to…
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Deep Down Dirty: Mýrarbolti Matures
The spectacle of it—just outside the picturesque town of Ísafjörður in the West Fjords, there are hundreds of locals dressed up in Halloween style outfits covered in mud, shivering, drinking from large cans of beer in the rain. To pull up to…
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A Hike In Hornstrandir: Mountains, Fjords and Gods
As a day’s hike reveals, the Hornstrandir nature reserve leaves little to be desired, and a lot to be discovered. The Hornstrandir Nature reserve – “Strandir”, for short – is unique in every sense, and it is no wonder that the area…
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192-Hour Party People
It would take a die-hard stalwart of a Guns ‘N Roses fan to be satisfied with the million-dollar joke the distinctly ungainly Axl Rose pulled on his 60,000 strong audience. Swaggering onstage almost an hour after they were scheduled to start, he…
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The Village of Hafnarfjörður
As you head south on Route 1 from Reykjavík, the first thing you see as you cross into Hafnarfjörður city limits are giant piles of lava flanking the highway, pushing up out of the lawns of apartment buildings, which make holes in…