Please Don’t Rain on our Parade
It rains a lot in Iceland. It rained the day we arrived. It rained the next morning too. This was starting to put a damper [...]
Iceland (Jun 2021)
We plan to return to Iceland in June for our third visit in the past two years. We chose June to take advantage of [...]
My Personal Favorites
It's 2019 and it is off to interesting start. More on this in a future blog. At the beginning of a new year, it is a [...]
Iceland Pop Quiz
We hope you read and enjoyed our posts on Iceland. Hopefully, the information in those posts can help you with this short pop quiz to [...]
The Icelandic Marshmallow
Iceland's national animal is the Gyrfalcon. It's national flower is Mountain Avens. We also discovered it's national confectionary. It is the marshmallow. They are everywhere, [...]
Even the Best Laid Plans
Sunrise at the black pebble beach was about 4:30am. Given it was 30 minutes from the hotel, the alarm was set for 3:30 to insure [...]
Timing is Everything
Vik is the southernmost village in Iceland, home for about 300 Icelanders. This may seem small to you and I, but it is the largest [...]
Sunny Siglufjordur
After multiple days of clouds, rain and fog, I was excited to enter the fjord for Siglufjordur and see the clouds lift to reveal the [...]