Happy as happy can be. Icelanders mostly find happiness in pill form. PIC billygraham.org Today´s media leaves much to be desired. We are bombarded with all…
totalicelandstaffFebruary 8, 2016
The local currency. Now you need considerable more to buy less. Here we are again. Slightly older and a little wiser and still dreaming about…
totalicelandstaffFebruary 6, 2016
The only place in the world where you literally dive between continents. But deaths are occurring with alarming regularity. PIC Jerrold Bennett You may or…
albertJanuary 29, 2016
From 300 thousand tourists a year to well over a million in a couple of years will mean gigantic problems in a tiny country. And…
totalicelandstaffJanuary 19, 2016
Not many tricks to make a trip in Iceland cheaper but this could help. PIC Globesurfer.de It is getting infinitely harder for backpackers and those…
albertNovember 22, 2015
A party of "mostly" forgotten alcohol brands. If we had a dime for every time we´ve come across some local tour enterprise offering foreigners the…
albertNovember 21, 2015
For a town its size it´s quite amazing the varied things one can do in Akureyri. PIC Tom Olliver At the beginning of the century…
albertNovember 20, 2015
Traditions from times past and Yule Lads to boost. PIC Árbæjarsafn Twenty years ago the thirteen different Santa´s of Iceland only got mentioned in hushed tones…
albertNovember 20, 2015
Before you order some fancy schmanzy bacon or other pig products in Iceland you should know how the poor animals are treated. PIC RUV We…
albertNovember 12, 2015
Stunning scenes from a forthcoming Indian movie taken partly in Iceland. Screengrab One has to wonder. Today not a human with a camera has not…
albertNovember 9, 2015
Is tipping allowed? Cheapest supermarket? Bad neighborhoods? All is answered. PIC Vera & Jean Christophe Y ou´ve been here before. No travel to anywhere is…
totalicelandstaffNovember 7, 2015
The tiniest of turf building before an opening into the rock. The cave of Rutur has quite the history. PIC Chris Johnson I t is…
totalicelandstaffNovember 4, 2015
No the pic is not really grainy. The pants are just this awful. It sounds somewhat like a news story from Germany: “Helmut Göhrenringer was…
totalicelandstaffNovember 3, 2015
A company recklessly taking tourists to disturb the handful of eagles found in Iceland. Avoid at all costs. You know how simple folks get blinded…
totalicelandstaffNovember 2, 2015
Skardsdal valley ski area of Siglufjordur in Iceland. Very, very nice but lacking too. PIC siglo.is A ll is fair in love and war says…
totalicelandstaffOctober 30, 2015
The hippiest bars, the weirdest bars and the fun joints as well. All part and parcel of the Whopping Barhopping Walkabout tour. PIC lauren From…
totalicelandstaffOctober 23, 2015
One truly awesome place on the list of no one is Mjóifjordur fjord with its majestic Klifbrekkufossar waterfall at its entrance. PIC east.is S eeing…
totalicelandstaffOctober 19, 2015
Inviting isn´t it? But here, as elsewhere, looks can be deceiving. PIC Matt Malone Ahhhh. Those awesome and tantalizing black beaches of Iceland. Practically the…
totalicelandstaffOctober 19, 2015
Hreidar Mar Sigurdsson was convicted of massive fraud as the head of the former Kaupthing bank of Iceland. Now you might be filling his coffers…
totalicelandstaffOctober 1, 2015
The famous Blue lagoon and in the background the energy company supplying the lagoon with its warm water. Radioactive pollution has been found in boreholes…
albertSeptember 17, 2015
Pretty nice huh? Except this place does not exist in reality. Advert from Icelandair You know how all the Yves Saint Laurent and Gucci models…
albertSeptember 16, 2015
For lovers of La Linea this is a marvel. PIC Jerome Vadon We regularly get questions about the Icelandic sense of humor? Why we don´t…
albertSeptember 16, 2015
Contrary to belief the Northern Lights are not always green and not always flickering horizontally. They come in some amazingly different forms. PIC greenzowie Unless…
albertSeptember 14, 2015