Knitting the Icelandic way – crafting trolls out Icelandic wool
Words and pictures by Barbara Glover. We are grateful for her story about her learning knitting the Icelandic way. No pain, no gain! “Ouch!” I cry as I jab my finger with the needle for a second time. The multi-colored, felted wool balls, ribbons, and...
Driving Around Iceland is a Dream Come True – Read About the Journey
Text and photos by Stefan Schnettler, Darmstadt, Germany. He is the Global Marketing Director for the leading data recovery company Kroll Ontrack. He went driving around Iceland with his family and was kind enough to share their experience. Spending our summer holiday by driving around...
Epic Waterfalls and Northern Lights in Northern Iceland
Words and pictures by Cyril B who has a fantastic fantastic photo page on National Geopgraphic and nice pictures on his personal website. My name is Cyril, I’m 37 years old and I’m Engineer in the aeronautics industry. I’m French but I have lived in northern Germany since mid 2012....
The Great Fish Day in Dalvik is an Icelandic Feast for the Senses
Julie Sarperi joins the guest bloggers here at Stuck in Iceland. Julie is French and runs a fantastic travel blog in her native language. She writes about the annual festival called The Great Fish Day which takes place in the village of Dalvik in the North-East...
Photographing the Wonders of Snæfellsnes Peninsula
Dr. Michael Schwarzmüller joins us as a guest blogger from Germany. As his web site and his account on 500px clearly show he is an accomplished photographer and an artist at heart. The good doctor visited the Snæfellsnes peninsula in the spring of 2014. A week...
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...
2014 Calendar with Aerial Photography from Iceland by Nick Miners
Our friend Nick Miners who has contributed to our blog with his stunning pictures of the Westfjords has the following message to the readers of Stuck in Iceland: Over the course of my many visits to Iceland I have made a lot of good friends,...
