A Tale of Two Old Reykjavik Graveyards
Reykjavik has two old graveyards which are no longer in use. The first one is now a square just across the road from the Settlement Museum (which I highly recommend) and was in use from the settlement in the ninth century to about 1838 when the graveyard...
Celebrate Reykjavik Gay Pride
One of the best and most popular annual festivals in Reykjavik is the colorful and utterly joyous gay pride parade. The parade itself which most people focus us on is actually part of a multi-day events focused on gay topics which is called Hinsegin dagar...
Cycling in Reykjavik – See this Time Lapse Video of Exploring the City
Bicycling has fast become a favorite sport and a popular way to get around for people here in Reykjavik. It is a pretty good idea to get a bike if you want to explore the city since distances here aren´t that long. For example you can...
Check out the Reykjavik Street Food Market
A quick public service announcement: there is a really nice food market in the center of Reykjavik every Saturday in August and July. Opening hours are from 1 – 6 PM. I went today and it had a really nice assortment of various restaurants offering a lot...
Why You Should Visit Iceland in Winter
Words and pictures by Peter Riederer Because almost everyone goes to the south of Europe in winter, Me – Peter a 33 years old IT-Department leader and my friend Marc a 36 years old Sales Operations Manager from Munich – Germany decided to buck the trend...
From Lush Borneo to Remote Iceland
Words and pictures by Drew Pyke. As avid wildlife photographers from leafy Sussex (UK), we arrived in Iceland full of ‘northern promise’. Having ventured to the orang-utans of the Borneo rainforest and the puffins of the Farne Islands the year before, the most sparsely...
Final Night of 2015 Sonar Reykjavik Music Festival
Our favourite Vlogger Asgeir finishes his episodes from the 2015 Sonar Reykjavik Music Festival with a great video from the third and final night. It features YUNG LEAN, Ryan Hemsworth, Elliphant and the laser infused madness of Skrilllex.
Glimpse of World War 2 in Reykjavik
The British occupied Iceland on the 10th of May 1940, the same day that the German invaded Belgium, the Netherlands, and France. The primary purpose of the occupation was to strengthen Britain’s position in the battle of the Atlantic. At this time, German submarines were wreaking...
