The seventh season of Somebody Feed Phil dropped on Netflix on Friday so I’ve dropped the Georgia posts just for today to show you all the places Phil Rosenthal visited in and around Reykjavik and how to go there yourself. I’ve made a map so you can find all the places Phil ate in Iceland … More Somebody Feed Phil in Iceland
I thought it might be nice to watch a winter, Christmas or Arctic-related film or TV show as part of the 12 Days of Christmas but there’s nothing particularly new at the moment. Was it two years ago now that Iceland appeared on about six TV shows in three days? Not finding that this year. … More Light Attaching to a Girl review
When I went to Iceland in February, I went with the hope of finding a chance to watch a documentary I’d seen mentioned in the Reykjavik Grapevine: Swimming Pool Stories, a film about Icelandic pool culture. I couldn’t find it online. Was there maybe a cinema in Reykjavik where I could catch it? Might it … More Film review: Swimming Pool Stories
Today was supposed to be about packing for a winter glamping trip, aka what you need to take to survive in an uninsulated tin can in December but then this video popped up in my YouTube subscriptions today. It features Iceland and specifically Meradalir and you know I can’t resist commenting on that kind of … More Tom Scott goes to Meradalir
In November 2021, a man was severely injured in an accident in a cave in south Wales. The subsequent rescue involved around 300 people and took 54 hours. It made national news. It made international news. I wrote a blog post about the complexity of the cave and why it took so long. And now BBC … More The Rescue: 54 Hours Under the Ground
Last week I watched Earthstorm Volcano, the second episode of the series. I was expecting a nice documentary starring Fagradalsfjall, the 2021 eruption in Iceland, and instead I got some high-octane nightmare fuel. It did indeed feature Fagradalsfjall and then it built up and up and up to bigger and more destructive volcanoes and finished … More Earthstorm: Volcano
I thought perhaps today instead of talking about my travels, I’d talk about other people’s travels. I recently made my first real video so let’s look at video makers – who are my favourite creators of video content? Now, I don’t watch a whole lot of YouTube and what I do watch tends to be … More My favourite travel video makers
Iceland has been on TV a lot lately. I don’t know if the TV has decided to show us all the places we can’t go or if a new volcano has just captured everyone’s imaginations again, like Eyjafjallajökull did ten years ago, but I had to create a separate Google Calendar just to make sure … More Iceland on TV over Christmas
Hi, welcome back to normal blogging! I hope you enjoyed the Polar Bear Winter Festival but now Christmas is over and we’re back to the regular non-winter-related twice-a-week posts. I don’t talk about TV much and when I do, it’s either about Iceland or somewhere suitably Nordic. But today I’m talking about Marvel’s Hawkeye miniseries. … More Archer reacts to Marvel’s Hawkeye
Well, I didn’t foresee my second post in the Polar Bear Winter Festival being a TV review but I also didn’t realise that the first episode of the new series of Amazing Hotels: Life Beyond the Lobby on BBC2 was going to be about the ION Adventure Hotel in Iceland. What’s more wintery than a … More Amazing Hotels: ION Adventure Hotel
I Am A Polar Bear 