I had the idea for a human itinerary, one day in Reykjavik vs a day suggested by an AI while I was watching Hannah Witton’s I Asked Chat GPT & a London Expert to Plan A Solo Day Out in London video in September and immediately wondered what I would say for a day in… More One day in Reykjavik: my itinerary vs Chat GPT’s
Grábrók is one of my favourite attractions in a country full of incredible things to see and do, and I can’t quite believe I’ve never written about it before. Technically Grábrók is “they”, not “it”. “It” is a little cluster of moss-streaked red craters beside the Ring Road: Stóra Grábrók (Big Grábrók), Litla Grábrók (Little… More Roadside Volcanoes: Grábrók
I said at the beginning of the year that I was going to work through some gaps and one particularly egregious gap is Hverir, the geothermal area at Mývatn. I love Mývatn. You can never run out of interesting geothermal or volcanic things to see and do, and one particularly popular spot is Hverir. Hverir… More Hverir: geothermal area or another planet?
Iceland has had a major boom in tourism in the last 15 years, which was welcomed at first as an antidote to the kreppa, the financial crash of 2008. At that time, tourism was Iceland’s third biggest industry. Almost overnight, it soared to first place, leaving fishing and aluminium processing, the former first and second… More How to be a good tourist in Iceland
Iceland has been my mania for a long time. Kayaking has been bubbling up but has been my newest mania for a little while, but particularly right now, as I attempt to enact a plot I actually have no control over whatsoever. Anyway, the moment I discovered that this book existed, via Lee-Anne Fox on… More Travel Library: Iceland by Kayak by Nigel Foster
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
At last it’s time for the final episode in this video series, Is This the Best Geothermal Pool in Iceland! It’s been months! I recorded the first attempts back at the beginning of November and yet with one thing and another, I only filmed this last one a week ago. Anyway, we’re at Hvammsvík for this last… More New video: Hvammsvík – is this the best geothermal pool in Iceland?
It’s the penultimate episode of my ten-part series, Is This The Best Geothermal Pool in Iceland? and I think by now we might have an idea of which is indeed the best geothermal pool in Iceland. But we’ve got two late contenders for the title and this one is the Forest Lagoon in Akureyri. A… More New video: The Forest Lagoon – is this the best geothermal pool in Iceland?
Today brings part eight of my series about the ten best geothermal pools, lagoons, spas, hot springs etc etc in Iceland and I’m taking you along to the Sky Lagoon. This one’s claim to fame is that it’s just 15 minutes from downtown Reykjavik and it waves its unique seven-step Ritual as evidence of… More New video: Sky Lagoon – is this the best geothermal pool in Iceland?
It’s time for the seventh episode of “Is this the best geothermal pool in Iceland?”, the ten-part series where I take a closer look at the pools, lagoons, spas, hot springs and geothermal experiences aimed at tourists, see what facilities they have to offer, score them points and then compare and contrast to figure out… More New video: Vök Baths – is this the best geothermal pool in Iceland?