How to celebrate your anniversary – in Iceland!

Last year, we celebrated our 10th year of being together, in Iceland and it really was a magical trip! From volcanoes that throw surprise parties now and then, complete with fireworks and ashy plumes to gigantic glaciers grinding downhill, threatening to melt and make one large swimming pool out of Iceland, to geysers that shower […]

Ice Hotel Scenery

Super-cool stay at the Ice Hotel, Sweden

En route on an attempt to see the Northern Lights in Abisko, up in Swedish Lapland, we stayed one night at the famed Ice Hotel. This hotel is truly unique – the fact that every year, the hotel starts to melt back into the river Torne, the ice from which is used to build the […]

View of Reykjavik

Romp around Reykjavik in 2 days

Pre-trip research painted the citizens of Reykjavik as being a super-jeep driving, music loving, hot dog-eating, bar-hopping friendly lot. Yes, I got to experience three out of the four traits and if I hadn’t just narrowly missed their annual music fest, Iceland Airwaves, I would have experienced the 4th. More on the super-jeep loving part once […]