Flatey Island – Discover the Island of Zen in the West of Iceland
Icelandica is a blog written by Tory Bilski, an American woman who travels every summer to Iceland with a group of friends. They ride horses, chatter incessantly, and kick up dust. She has previously written for Stuck in Iceland about visiting the site of the last...
Ivory Vikings – Solving the Mystery of the Lewis Chessmen
I have had many great guest authors who have contributed to Stuck in Iceland. Nancy Marie Brown is squarely in the celebrity category of my guest bloggers. She recently published a new book called Ivory Vikings: The Mystery of the Most Famous Chessmen in the World and the Woman Who...
Seeing the Northern Lights and Stargazing in Iceland
Sævar Helgi Bragason is Iceland´s stargazer-in-chief and I am happy to call him my friend. He heads the largest astronomy club in the country and is a celebrity and a local hero for almost single-handedly organizing a massive national event for the 2015 solar eclipse...
Get a Guide in South East Iceland
Like most Icelanders I haven’t been too good at exploring the South-Eastern part of Iceland. But I feel that it is important to highlight the great possibilities for travel in faraway places of this country. The best way for someone for me who has far...
Iceland C47 Plane Video – See the Famous Skytrain Wreck
My friend Asgeir of ´DoMore Asgeir´fame is back! Now he makes the journey to the crashed Iceland C47 plane at Solheimasandur and creates a Iceland C47 plane video. It is complete with a history lesson that may not be exhaustive but is mostly accurate. He...
IcelandicRoad Trips – Experience Joy of the Ring Road
In the three years we have run the site we have heard from a lot of people who have asked us about the ring road or told us about the fun they have had on traveling on it. They are in many ways typical of...
Watch this Mindblowing Iceland Whale Watching Video
We here at Stuck in Iceland just love whale watching (and whales for that matter). We were absolutely thrilled to see the epic Iceland whale watching video from Ambassador Whale Watching titled Whales of Akureyri. The video features both drone footage from the air and...
See the Stunning Dyrholaey – You Must See this Natural Wonder in Iceland
We envy Birna Vidarsdottir. She lives on a farm right next to Dyrholaey, the village of Vík and to Reynisfjara beach. All great destinations in and by themselves. She took the above picture of the lighthouse at Dyrholaey just a year ago. The lighthouse was originally...
