Tag / Reykjavik
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Things to do in Iceland: Winter Lights Festival
The Winter Lights festival, or Vetrarhátíð, brightens up a dreary and cold February in Iceland. Celebrating the lengthening days, the festival is a combination of cultural events, light installations and many museums are free which is a great bonus. Many museums put on special guided tours or events, there’s art everywhere, language classes, storytelling, there was…
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The Pearl of Reykjavík: Perlan
If you visit Reykjavík you’ll probably notice a large glass dome building perched up on top of a hill Öskjuhlíð. Well that’s Perlan, Reykjavík, a former water reservoir and now cafe, natural sciences museum and viewpoint, and it’s well worth a stop. Built in 1988 and designed by Ingimundur Sveinsson, Perlan was originally just a hot water reservoir,…
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Music in Iceland: The Punk Museum Reykjavík
Iceland has it’s share of quirky museums but one of my favourites is the tiny but jam-packed Pönksafn Íslands or Icelandic Punk Museum in downtown Reykjavík, perfectly located in a disused public toilet at the bottom of Laugavegur. So when I was ambling around Reykjavík one day I thought I’d check out The Punk Museum Reykjavík. The museum…
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3 Tips on how to avoid the crowds in Iceland
Tourist numbers in Iceland have been skyrocketing. Accommodation options are being stretched to the limit as well as bringing about a host of other problems. In 2016 tourists from the US will have outnumbered the local population or if you prefer pictures here are some lovely graphs. As a responsible tourist I have moved here to balance things…
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Things to do in Iceland in bad weather
Winter is here in Iceland and it seems every week there is another storm or at least where I am it’s perpetually raining. My knitting is going well but is more an evening thing – so what are the things to do in Iceland when the weather is bad, where there are no northern lights, you need a…
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On hitchhiking in Iceland: lessons learned
Right now I’m based north of Selfoss and find myself (for the first time since I was old enough to drive) car-less while living in the countryside. At this point I’m getting cabin fever and I’m learning a lot about Hitchhiking in Iceland. On my Sunday off a couple of weeks ago, I really wanted…
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Iceland: 5 Museums and places to visit in Reykjavik
It’s my last day in Reykjavik and being an overcast day and somewhat raining day it’s a good idea to head indoors after being outside so much. So what are the best museums in Reykjavik? Saga Museum I thought I remembered this museum in Reykjavik as being better. It’s quite expensive and not very large. I…
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All the seasons: Reykjavik and Seyðisfjörður
Not sure how well my plan to avoid the rain worked out when yesterday it lashed to the point where I couldn’t have gotten wetter had I jumped into the sea. After a visit to Viðey I walked around, visited some museums until utterly miserable I squelched back to the campsite. Viðey Island Get the ferry…
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A sunny afternoon in Reykjavík
Iceland is called Iceland for a reason right? It’s not supposed to be hot! Iceland was so named after the first Norseman to spend a winter here lost all his cattle to the harsh weather before packing up never to return. But it was a sunny 12°C when I landed in Keflavik the international airport…