At 20.45 (8,45 p.m.) on Friday evening March 19th. 2021 an eruption started in a mountain area north east of the town Grindavik. This area is close to the mountain Fagradalsfjall and the valley´s name is Geldingadalur. When it comes […]

Iceland was settled around 870 with vikings coming mostly from Scandinavia. The first settler is said to have been Ingólfur Arnarsson, but we know now that before him were Irish monks living in Iceland. Also there are indications about settlement […]

The majority of the birds that hatch regularly in Iceland are migrating birds. It means that every year they fly over the Atlantic ocean back and forth. To Iceland in the spring and back to other countries in the autumn. […]

When Iceland was settled in the 870´s the settlers needed houses to live in and they used turf to build the houses. In the beginning all the houses were built totally with turf and the roof with branches of trees […]

This is a question we get many times and it can be a bit tricky to answer. Iceland has so much to offer and the four seasons are so different that it merely depends upon one’s interests, which time of […]

It is fair to say that the weather in Iceland is quite unpredictable and we have a saying that “if you don’t like the weather, just wait five minutes, it will change”. When this blog is written in the middle […]

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Northern lights

As the name “Iceland” indicates, snow, ice, cold, besides of course the countries latitude, it is ironic that because of the relatively mild winters in Iceland, winter sports like skiing are only practiced for about 3-4 months. That is the […]