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9.8.2010

The Way To The Great Valley

Landmannalaugar is one of the many beautiful places in Iceland that highly spoken of and kind of tricky to access.
7.7.2010

Boats, Birds And Baked Goods

Nothing starts the day like an early flight to Ísafjörður.
31.5.2010

Romping Through Lava Fields

A walk through customs and a small wait for suitcases at the Keflavík International Airport plus a dip in the Blue Lagoon just about sums up the Reykjanes peninsula for many tourists who then hop on a bus to Reykjavík.
17.5.2010

Grapevine Takes A Tour On Icelandic Horseback

You’d think from the looks of these dwarfen beasts that they’d be meek and mild, happy to carry a hobbit off on an adventure into Iceland’s fairytale landscape.
23.4.2010

Snorkelling In Long Underwear And Thick Socks

School’s out, work’s off and Spring Break has finally arrived. Like countless others with the same ideas of escape, I fled the city for a nice snorkelling destination.
8.2.2010

Scary Adventures On A Glacier

As most Icelandic adventures, this one starts at eight-thirty in the morning at Reykjavík’s central bus terminal, BSÍ. Grapevine’s photographer and I are there to embark upon Reykjavík Excursions Glacier Adventure, which entails riding snowmobiles around the Mýrdalsjökull glacier.
 
 
14.1.2010

Northern Exposure

Boarding a plane at the Reykjavík airport has all the pomp and ceremony of catching a city bus: no gates, no magic wands, no taking my belt or shoes off. After a few minutes of waiting in the lobby with other red-eyed passengers, an attendant simply points outside and we all trudge out towards the prop plane waiting at the door.
18.11.2009

Yoko´s Tower of Power

I like Yoko Ono. In fact, I like Yoko Ono far more than I’ve ever liked John Lennon.
18.11.2009

Brilliant Hike on the Rocks

“For how many gin and tonics could you get ice from this glacier?” asks one co-traveller as our group of hikers makes its way towards Sólheimajökull, an outlet glacier in Southern Iceland.
28.10.2009

Battle of the Golden Circle

One PM and it’s a sea of silver heads on the Gullfoss and Geyser Express Tour as international pensioners claim seats.
23.9.2009

Winter Wonderland

The equinox is almost upon us, and a big ol’ nine-month night will soon overtake our days. Temperatures are rapidly dropping and the snow will soon fall.
1.9.2009

The Metaphysical Art of Sailing the North Atlantic

There is something elemental that happens when you face an unbridled ocean. It’s something so primal; it affects the very core of our DNA.
20.8.2009

All The Pretty Little Horsies

I can’t say that I ever intended to, of all things, go horseback riding here in Iceland. I tried riding a horse once when I was eight. I screamed a lot. I might have been sick. I didn’t like it.
22.7.2009

Puffin Party

Puffin Express brings you to the forefront of puffin life with their daily rides out to Akurey Island, which is just a short distance from Reykjavík Harbour.
6.7.2009

Best July Activity

Leaving Ísafjörður on July 17, the Aurora, a 60-foot sloop yacht that has travelled around the world four times in competition, will embark on a true Viking journey of natural discovery.
3.7.2009

Nothing like a Cold Glacier on a Summer Day

It is June, and I’m eating lunch on a large slab of ice with my axe sticking out of a slight incline nearby. In an alternate universe, say, my summers past, I would be contemplating the strength of SPF I should use on a trip to the beach, not wielding a sharp tool while crossing a frozen landscape.
19.6.2009

King Of The Road

When you take the most bad-ass of vehicles and combine it with a little off-road driving, you, in turn, become the bad-ass you have always dreamt of being. Steven Seagal, step aside.

11.6.2009

Free Minke

Elding tours located in the old harbour of Reykjavík claim a staggering 95% sighting guarantee. If you’re one of the unfortunate 5% then you’re generously offered another tour for free. Lucky for me, and a few dozen others, we saw a whole lot of blubber – both on board and in the ocean of course.
5.6.2009

Climb Every Mountain

The handsome, looming monstrosity of Mount Esja emerges from the sea, and sits, keeping watch over Reykjavík. It is a very good mountain to admire from afar, like a secret crush whose house you just “happen” to drive by. Then comes the actual first experience, in person (yes, in person!) of talking to the crush: the sweaty palms, the avoidance of eye contact, the dry mouth, all the usual signs of studied familiarity, yet unknowing expectancy.
20.5.2009

Seatours

Seatours is a long-established tourist company located in the picturesque coastal town of Stykkishólmur.
13.5.2009

Iceland Excursions

We are a fully licensed travel agency with more than 25 years of experience on the market. Today we are one of the leading specialists in incoming tourism in Iceland.
8.5.2009

Scuba Diving + Jeeps = F-U-N

This particular tour is very convenient for folks who don't know their way around Reykjavík, as the good people of the Reykjavík Activity Center pick you up right at your front door, given that you let them know where you’re staying. That seems easy enough. For this Grapevine reporter, it wasn’t. I like to sleep in. Thus, my activity tour started with a lot of wild flailing for clothes and some desperate running out the door.
1.4.2009

Reykjavík Excursions

Reykjavik Excursions (RE) was founded in 1968 and has since been the leading organizer of day tours in Iceland. RE is a fully licensed tour operator and travel agent. RE operates one of the biggest bus fleets in Iceland making the company one of the largest organizers of tours both for individuals and groups in Iceland.
12.1.2009

Þingvellir On 38 Inch Tyres

One thing that hits you once you get acquainted with Reykjavík's cityscape is the abundance of big-wheeled, so-called called “Super Jeeps”.
18.8.2008

The Serene Act of Watching Whales

Ahoy there! Grapevine clambered on board the Ísafold for an afternoon of whale watching and deep sea fishing.
1.8.2008

White-water Fun!

29.7.2008

Getting Spooked

Silfra ranks among the top diving sites in the world I’ve been told frequently, and after floating in the water for an hour I understood quite well what the fuss is about. The water is so crystal clear that the visibility can be up to 100 metres.
29.7.2008

Hot Springs and Mountans of Many Colours

It is an overcast, cold day when I arrive at the BSÍ bus terminal and board the mini bus along with 11 others for the early Sunday morning guided tour of Landmannalaugar and the “Saga Valley”. The forecast is for a warm, sunny day, but despite all evidence to the contrary, our driver Sævar is optimistic, proclaiming his faith in Iceland’s temperamental weather gods.
15.7.2008

Fjord Explorers

Kayaking in Hvalfjörður fjord is yet another fine way to discover the profound beauty of Iceland’s landscape.
15.7.2008

Getting Horny with the Cod

The first thing that strikes you about the fish is just how bright and healthy-looking they seem to be
2.7.2008

Glacial Dogs

There were five of them up on the Mýrdalsjökull glacier: a journalist, a photographer, and three former sergeants from the Danish army who by some strange cosmic coincidence were all named Christian
20.6.2008

City Slicker Rides Again

It’s Friday morning, around quarter past nine and me, the photographer, and an older Danish man and his wife are being driven to Laxnes in Mosfellssveit by Þórarinn “Póri” Jónasson.
18.6.2008

The View From the Top

Despite its name, Iceland is not all that icy.
9.5.2008

Stumbling Around Glaciers

29.6.2007

The Playground Hvítá River

29.6.2007

Fighting Hypothermia at Iceland’s Highest Peak

“Crevasse!” The deal was that a yell would warn the party whenever a chasm and potential danger was spotted in the ice. In practice, things went quite differently. Our guide simply vanished in a white cloud right before our eyes. Yell or not, it was rather evident that we had actually happened to incur a crevasse, subtly concealed by snow. We all ducked at once – as we had been instructed to do in similar cases, before entering the glacier – to exercise further traction on the rope and give the leader the necessary stability for rescuing himself. Then, it was just a matter of waiting.
18.5.2007

A Thrill Like No Other

18.5.2007

Horse Riding in Hafnarfjörður

9.2.2007

Exploring the Þingvellir Lava Fields From the Inside Out

30.6.2006

Visiting Viking Trails in the West

30.6.2006

A Really Wild Safari to the Brink of Human Endurance, Sort of

16.6.2006

Watching Whales in Action

16.6.2006

A Weird Tour of Haunted Reykjavík

2.6.2006

Bubbling Water and a Hidden Bathing Spot

19.5.2006

Mind the Menacing Bumblebees

5.12.2005

More Pleasant Tour than Rugged Safari

2.10.2005

Blue Ice Doesn’t Say the Half of It:

10.6.2005

Whale Watching in Faxaflói Bay

The Grapevine sent two young foreign residents of Reykjavík on a whale-watching tour of Faxaflói Bay.
10.6.2005

Look at Me, I’m Rugged

Hvítá is not the first river you’d think of putting a boat on. An extremely powerful glacial river, if you’ve gone to the awe-inspiring waterfall Gullfoss, you recognize the name. So it is surprising that Arctic Rafting runs a moderate tour, at a rating of about 2.3 on a 5 scale, down the river only two hours from Reykjavík.
3.9.2004

Mountain Taxicab Confessions: My Tires are Bigger than Yours

It’s not the size of the tires; it’s the motion of the ocean, right? Wrong. If you want to venture off the coast and penetrate deep into Iceland’s virgin interior, you’ll need big tires. Unfortunately, most Icelandic jalopies can hardly make it up Öskjuhlíðin, let alone a glacier, but there are a number of local outfitters who are ready and willing to take you farther than you’ve ever gone before. Grapevine took a trip with one of the more popular outfitters, Mountain Taxi, to see if the grass really is greener on the other side of glacier.
22.8.2003

OBSCURED BY CLOUDS

As any Icelander knows, there´s nothing at all to on this island but drink and watch TV. Yet tourists come here in droves, leave the city and come back all smiles. What do they get up to out there in the wilderness? Grapevine investigates.
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