Iceland road trip with camping – find great tips here
Want to go on an Iceland road trip with camping? Zakarias Fridriksson is a young entrepreneur who recently founded the car rental and camping equipment rental company Camping Iceland with two of his childhood friends, Aron Freyr Gíslason and Bergsteinn Máni Guðmundsson. I just started...
Old-time Icelandic Christmas – dodging trolls, and a kid eating cat
Modern Icelanders love to celebrate Christmas. In a country where people must deal with a long, cold winter, feasting, gift-giving, and merrymaking are welcome distractions. So modern Icelanders go all in for Christmas, or Yule, as we call the festival here. But even if Christmas...
Entrepreneur Safa Jemai spices up Iceland
One of the best things that has happened to Iceland in the past decades is the many immigrants that have moved from abroad and enriched the country´s culture and country. When I was growing up, Iceland was utterly monoculture, and everything was rather bland, both...
Man-made caves in south Iceland could be from the first settlers
For the longest time, the history of Iceland has been told this way: Noble Norwegian chieftains wanted to be free of the aggressive king Haraldur Hardrada, who unified Norway with force. These intrepid chieftains wanted to live free in remote Iceland rather than bend the...