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Iceland focused interviews

She paddles to save the blue planet

The word ‘legend’ is overused. But I will still want to use it for my latest interviewee, Icelandic kayaker, photographer, and environmental activist Veiga Grétarsdóttir. In 2019 she was the first person to paddle a kayak around the entire island of Iceland. Veiga traveled counter-clockwise…

Gardar ship rusts away in the Westfjords of Iceland

Westfjords of Iceland – magical, remote and rugged

The forlorn ship, Gardar, rusts away in the Westfjords of Iceland. Westfjords of Iceland is a magical region. It is a little tough to describe it, but even if the Westfjords are a region of Iceland, I always feel that I am abroad when I...
Rafn Sigurbjörnsson is an Icelandic photographer who has it as his passion to document Iceland. This is one of his pictures from Landmannalaugar.
Iceland focused interviews

Documenting Iceland with photos and videos

About six years ago, I interviewed Icelandic photographer Rafn Sigurbjörnsson about his Icelandic photo book series called ‘Wild Iceland – the untouched nature. The eight-book series was created in less than one year. Rafn has not in any way stopped documenting Iceland with photos and…

Westfjords of Iceland

Visit Núpur in the Westfjords of Iceland

Are you looking for a place off the beaten track? Well, consider the Westfjords of Iceland. Consider having a base in Núpur, Dýrafjörður. Núpur is close to some incredible attractions.   I quite like the large shadow bird: Westfjords of Iceland even has an award-winning…