Christmas à la Frost!

Merry Christmas! Happy Christmas! Happy Holidays! Season’s Greetings! And all other variations on that theme! Today is Christmas Day and I can’t quite believe I’ve got a blog post scheduled for it. I thought I’d finish this Polar Bear Winter Festival by showing you what Christmas is like at my house so you can imagine… More Christmas à la Frost!

Winter cottage tour

I’m staying in a cottage! An actual cottage in a quaint little English village! My parents planned to go to Austria but for… reasons… I decided not to go with them, and then they didn’t go anyway. But I did have vague ideas of having a “wellness break” in December and so this is it.… More Winter cottage tour

Walking in winter

I think it’s time for the Polar Bear Winter Festival to veer sharply from the wistful (“I miss Iceland and Svalbard and still can’t travel!”) to the everyday. I try to be outdoorsy and walking in winter is definitely a thing you can do. Enjoying the great outdoors is fine in summer. Everyone wants to… More Walking in winter

Ten years of Iceland

Ten years ago tomorrow, I went to Iceland for the very first time. Ten years ago on Thursday or Friday, I decided that I wanted to live here and because I’m the practical sort and I don’t rush in, I decided that I wanted to be living in Iceland within the next ten years. You… More Ten years of Iceland