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...
Douglas C-47 in Iceland – See the Earthbound Skytrains
If you’d like to experience something out of the ordinary and don’t mind roughing it a bit you could visit the picturesque wrecks of two Douglas C-47 in Iceland. The Douglas C-47 (Dakota RAF) was developed from the Douglas DC-3 airliner for military use. The...
The Incredibly Shrinking Glacier in the South of Iceland
One of the best ways to experience a glacier up close and personal in Iceland is probably to explore the Sólheimajökull glacier that sticks out of the Mýrdalsjökull glacier. You should not have any trouble getting to the glacier, it is featured in a lot...
See the Waves of the North Atlantic Pound the Icelandic Coast
The typical travel brochure or website will show Iceland in sunlight and lovely weather. I am however a lot more interested when things get windy, cold and extreme. So when I was travelling from the wonderful getaway hotel of “Hotel Rangá” in the South of...