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Chasing the Northern Lights at Hotel Rangá
Blog: WildJunket - 27 September 2011
Mention Iceland and you often conjure images of glaciers, waterfalls, volcanoes and most of all, the Northern Lights.
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Lady in Reykjavik
Blog: A Lady in London - 12 July 2011
Iceland’s rugged natural scenery and geothermal mysteries are what attract most visitors. Reykjavik is often overlooked as a destination, serving merely as an arrival and departure point for travel to far-flung glaciers, geysers, and geothermal gems. But the capital city deserves a visit in its own right, and I intended to explore it on my [...]
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Lady at the Golden Circle
Blog: A Lady in London - 11 July 2011
Iceland is wild. There are few other places on Earth with as many active volcanoes, bubbling hot springs, spouting geysers, and glistening glaciers as the small island nation in the Atlantic. The famous natural monuments of the Golden Circle in Iceland feature each of these phenomena. When I planned my trip to Reykjavik, I knew [...]
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Nordic Adventures in Iceland
Blog: WildJunket - 30 June 2011
This is a guest post by Mags Yip. Cold. Bitter. Ghostly. Barren. While that might be what most people think of Iceland, I beg to differ. Iceland seduced me just minutes after arriving in Keflavik.
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Top 5 Natural Wonders of Reykjavik
Blog: Canada's Adventure Couple - 13 May 2011
Reykjavik is located in the southwest of Iceland and is home to some of the world’s most stunning natural scenery.
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Eating out in Reykjavik
Blog: Pommie Travels - 27 April 2011
The scenic and modern city of Reykjavic, Iceland is located on the very edge of Europe – but you wouldn’t know it from the contemporary cuisine on offer. And because the capital city is relatively small a great selection of restaurants are at your finger-tips. Local Icelandic food is both fresh and different from anything [...]
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5 Things to Round Out a Day in Reykjavik
Blog: Vagabond3 - 16 September 2010
Tourism in Iceland is mobile, people want to get out of the cities and see the countryside. Due to this, Reykjavik has more tours leaving from it than any other city I have ever visited. Which means, there are tons of people returning to the city either in the afternoon or mid-day with plenty of [...]
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More on Iceland
Blog: Orn's travel blog - South-East Asia and China - 25 August 2010
Did you know that there are 1.47 sheep for every human in Iceland and in 1980 there were 3.65 sheep for every Icelander? There are however 4.14 persons per Icelandic horse and about 12 of us per milking cow. More along those lines here. On another note, here I saw that the Penis museum in [...]
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Strokkur erupts with a Geysir
Blog: Travel Adventures of Newman - 3 August 2010
Update July 2010: An excerpt from this blog post appeared in the "Iceland Highlights" color photo section of the Lonely Planet Iceland guide (7th edition). Hooray for me.
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Roamin' through Reykjavik
Blog: Joe's Trippin' - 3 March 2010
Got some spare change rattling around your pocket? Well, perhaps a quick trip to the Icelandic capital can rectify that. I can only imagine how expensive Reykjavik was before the "economic crisis". Although prices haven't changed much, exchange rates have.
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The Golden Circle
Blog: Joe's Trippin' - 22 February 2010
I'm sure you can understand. But i just can't get excited about my 4,268,735th set of waterfalls as i was about the 1st. Or the highest. Or the most voluminous. But i was actually looking forward to my day tour of the Golden Circle when i was Reyjkavik, Iceland.
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Into the Shallow End
Blog: Joe's Trippin' - 16 February 2010
You've got to wonder what the first explorer to Iceland thought. Especially what he thought when he stumbled upon a streaming, blue cauldron of water in the middle desolate, lunar landscape.
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The Golden Arches Packed Up Their Knives and Left, no Padma needed
Blog: Travel Adventures of Newman - 19 December 2009
I didn't quite know what to make of this cartoon that recently appeared on the front page of the Reykjavik Grapevine, a weekly paper that chronicles all things happening in the capital city of
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Saegreifinn's World-Famous Lobster Soup (plus some Mink Whale)
Blog: Travel Adventures of Newman - 4 December 2009
I knew vaguely that Mark Bittman was a food writer for the New York Times, though I never really followed his blog posts. And then I saw a couple of episodes of the TV show "Spain: On the Road Again", where he and three cohorts (including the actress Gywneth Paltrow and famous chef Mario Batali) savor culinary delights all throughout Spain. Oh, so that's him...then I promptly forgot what he looked like.
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Hi, I'm Vatnsleysufoss...please call me Faxi
Blog: Travel Adventures of Newman - 3 December 2009
Quite a number of tour operators in Reykjavik offer the day-long excursion to the "Golden Circle" (the Icelandic tourist board's brilliant marketing term) - the trifecta of south Iceland's
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the golden circle
Blog: robbo joy (and now also slam) - 1 July 2009
iceland: day 2. after a great night's sleep, splendid breakfast at our hostel, and confidently equipped with maps, we embarked to explore the "golden circle". this includes the natural attractions of pingvellir valley, geysir, and gulfoss waterfall.
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Enchanting spots: Blue Lagoon
Blog: velvet escape's blog - 29 May 2009
The Blue Lagoon, just outside Reykjavik, is one of the most extraordinary spas I’ve ever been to and I can definitely recommend a visit for anyone planning a trip to Iceland. The lagoon consists of a series of aquamarine blue pools (this amazing colour is created by the silica, algae and minerals in the geothermal [...]
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Such A Nice Land
Blog: Bec and John in the UK - 13 March 2009
Credit Crunch. Economic slowdown. Financial crisis. It would not be an exaggeration to say that every British TV and print article in the last 6 months has contained one of the above phrases, or alluded to it with the classic "... in the current climate". The once-proud nation of Iceland copped an absolute spanking from the world's financial institutions and is quietly licking its wounds, probably hoping to get on board with the Euro and regain some stability.
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Reykjavik, Iceland
Blog: Patrick and Katrina do the Globe - 19 February 2009
It was approaching 8:30am on a mid-February morning as we pulled into the city of our latest travel adventure. It was as pitch black as the dead of night and the streets possessed an uncanny solitude. We were unsure if this could be attributed to a different lifestyle, a sort of sleepy metropolitanism, or simply the fact that it was a Saturday.
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