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...
Experience Iceland on Humanity TV
Words and pictures by Kerrin Sheldon and Gaston Blanchet. We are founders of an interactive documentary travel series called Humanity, built for the iPad. We are huge travellers, eespecially since starting the project in 2012. Initially, the goal of the project was centered around the idea of creating...
Great Hiking Trail Near Reykjavik – if You Can Find it!
There are loads of great hiking trails around Reykjavik. We love to hike Mount Esja but it can be a bit of a challenge for beginners. If you are looking for something easier the Búrfellsgjá hiking trail might be the right thing for you. The...
Where Reykjavik Hipsters Get Their Pizza
Reykjavik is full of resturants but some resturants here are admittedly bit more hipster friendly than others. Perhaps the most hipster friendly pizza place in Reykjavik is the nameless pizza place at Hverfisgata 12 in the city center. That´s right, this place is so hip...
Drink, Write, Love: Discovering Iceland’s Creative Culture
Arielle Demchuk is “trying” to be a writer in Edmonton, Canada. When not writing, she dabbles in photography, knitting, reading, and of course, travelling. The best advice she ever received was from a weird animated indie movie called Waking Life, which said that “The idea is...
Go on the Perfect Reykjavik Hiking Trail
Iceland is in many ways the perfect country for hiking. But not everybody who is visiting will have the time or the inclination to venture far from Reykjavik. And of course, hiking on glaciers or in the highlands is not for everyone. Luckily, there is this...
