Author: Stuck in Iceland

History and Culture

Do the Icelandic Monster Mash!

It is a little known fact but the sea  around Iceland and especially the remote Westfjords are teeming with elusive monsters that usually reside in the deep sea. But they sometimes venture up to dry land on beaches and coves to hunt. This means that...
Westfjords of Iceland

Two Very Un-Icelandic Beaches

I have fond memory of beaches from my youth. I would spend a lot of my boyhood years scampering about a cove close to my home and the beach there was a typically Icelandic with black sand and smooth gravel and rocks. Apparently, such beaches...