The horse’s name was Vorboðar, which means Bringer of Spring and he was not doing his job. Naively, I’d expected spring in Iceland to look quite a lot like summer – sunshine, leaves, people in lighter clothes – and what I’d seen of it so far had been winter but without the fun stuff like … More Horse riding in the rain | Iceland 2022
The second* thing on my to-do list for my trip to Iceland last month was to go to the Sky Lagoon, Iceland’s newest geothermal spa and it… well, it was good enough that I went back a second time five days later. It takes a lot of what the Blue Lagoon does well and – … More Iceland’s newest spa: The Sky Lagoon | Iceland April 2022
Yes! At long last I have new travel content – and new Iceland content at that! I got on my first plane in over two years and we’re starting with a bang: I visited the new Icelandic volcano! It still hasn’t been officially named, to the best of my knowledge, but it’s usually called Fagradalsfjall … More I visited the new Icelandic volcano! | Iceland 2022
Third in my Iceland Itinerary series is a real one, the one I plan to use next month! I haven’t been to Iceland for nearly four years and I’m very excited, and a bit nervous (I’m going on a plane!). And so this itinerary is both a blog post and me making plans. This is a week-long … More A real Iceland itinerary
Consider this post the launch of my new Iceland Hub! People know me for Iceland, both on social media and in real life and although there’s so much Iceland content here, I don’t really make it as prominent as I could, so now there’s a whole pretty page dedicated to gathering it all up together in … More I found every supermarket in Iceland
Oh, this is a difficult one because quite honestly, there are so many pools, spas and springs to bathe in that the only true itinerary I could give you is to take a month and just drive all the way around Iceland, stopping everywhere. Every settlement with more than about ten people living there has a … More An Iceland itinerary for waterbabies
I can’t believe I’ve never done this one! In January 2013, I went on one of the most expensive but also one of the most amazing and exclusive day trips I’ve ever done: a superjeep tour out to Landmannalaugar in the snow! At the time, it was either with Grayline or Reykjavik Excursions; the former … More Landmannalaugar in the snow
This is another of those gap-filling things. It occurred to me that I really should have a good collection of Iceland itineraries and so this is my Iceland series for 2022: a different itinerary every month. Leave me a comment if there’s any in particular you’d like to see and if you have a deadline … More A 5 day Iceland winter itinerary
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
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
I Am A Polar Bear 