Cabin Reykjavik

... . Just over the border you get cheap booze, meat and cigarettes. Hooray!! I havent travelled alot in Finland. But a few times and I will definetly go back. My dream knock on wood is to retire there some day in a cabin with a sauna over a fresh water lake.

Happy New Year to all of you! I spent an amazing New Year's Eve in Reykjavik. After breakfast, I went downtown to do some "sightseeing". It was thawing outside, so the streets and little paths were all really slippery. It took me about an hour to get to ...

... of mine.  The rooms in the hotel where small.  My bathroom at home is larger than the rooms at Hotel Cabin.  Actually, my bedroom closet is larger than the rooms at Hotel Cabin.  The staff wasn't exactly accomodating either.  In ...

... endless search for the remainder of the group, MK and I finally decided to head back to camp where we hiked 3 miles from downtown Reykjavik to do so. I took a great nap to regain the time lost and was later awoken by Chelsea to inform me that we were on ...

... Italian pizza joint-possibly the rarest of all in the Icelandic pizza kingdom. At one of the trendier establishments in city center Reykjavik, I had a lobster pizza- which was fantastic by the way. You will eat pizza for one of several reasons: 1. It is ...

... this beacon of Reykjavik on top of the hill in town we decided to go and find the building that towers over all of Reykjavik, Hallgrímskirkja (aka the Lutheran Church). This building is beautiful and as you approach it it looks like your looking at a ...

... ;                   I spent another great day in Reykjavik. This morning, I had breakfast together with a young British doctor - I love the British accent! Yesterday, I already had ...

... we stayed at was the Alba Guesthouse as it was recommend to us. We would recommend this to anyone travelling here to Reykjavik if only for the hot croissants in the morning... bloody good...! Room was small but adequat and had the usual Scandinavian two ...

... write one last entry from Reykjavik now. I had another fabulous day here. This morning I went to Seltjarnarnes - a township north of Reykjavik which is situated on a peninsula. It was another great tip Ute and Stephan gave me. I arrived just in time to ...

Ok so we've arrived in Iceland and although I cant send this yet because I'm out of internet reach, it'll go out when im back in Reykjavik.    But I wanted to keep you all current ...I know it'll be a lot of info all at once but, for me, ...

... a great 10 minute tour and learned that this plant would soon be the largest geothermal plant in the world, supplying 150% of Reykjavik’s electricity needs and using the leftover to power the huge aluminum smelters we saw when we drove in from the ...

... a good hour just chatting away with them.  I must say, every person that I’ve engaged with in conversation in Reykjavik couldn’t have been warmer, more kind or more helpful…just a real, real nice bunch of people in this ...

... of the night and how this relationship to time changed life for me…. No longer was there a rush to get back to the cabin to fish before sunset…. Just didn’t matter because it would be light at midnight. In the same vein, I’ll ...

We had the perfect accomodation to fully enjoy the Reykavik Culture! Our cabin was located accross a small parking lot from an art gallery with non stop karaoke from 6pm until about 10pm.  The Culture night was comprised mostly of folks traveling ...

... listen to my long winded stories up the pub but hopefully there might be something of interest to anyone planning a trip to Reykjavik.  So here goes: Flight was just two and a half hours from Heathrow and despite my greater than average fear of ...

... would take the quickest to cook. That suited us fine and the food was great, and cheap, but it did make one wonder whether Reykjavik was missing the obvious a little - we werent the only people in town wanting a meal after 9. We tried a few pubs, and ...

... up and start crossing rivers.... Pretty excited about the ride...and it completely lives up to my expectations....   Back to Reykjavik, the most expensive city in the world...seriously, they have fed us really well at Thorsmorck but I'm not going ...

... letters promising their appendages to the museum on death too - pretty whacky!    We set off heading back South to Reykjavik where we had decided to base ourselves for the last three nights. Back to our same guest house, the ...

... behind on organizing them and my internet access is more limited now. The ship is too expensive and too slow. I'm at a cafe in Reykjavik now - though it's very overcast and the photos aren't particularly interesting (so far). But it's only 11:00 am so ...