Planning a trip by your self can be both rewarding and overwhelming. This post aims to applaud the back-end helpers who often add salt and pepper to our trips, the tireless tour guides. Yes, they are there to show you all the best places to visit and give you information…
Utopia Arkitekter designed a prototype for a trekking cabin in Iceland, able to withstand extreme weather conditions. The small hut is dubbed Skýli (Icelandic for “shelter”) and the designers say it is meant to be easily transported to remote locations along some of the most famous trekking trails on Iceland. “Our…
Millennials today are prioritising travel more than anything else – well, most of them at least. According to stayplanner.com, 86 percent travel to experience a new culture, while 82 percent travel to different locations based on reviews online and 76 percent travel based on friends’ recommendations. Most of these people…
It often happens that one adventure triggers the next. We were hiking the outlandish volcano formations in Westman Islands, Iceland, when this lovely Czech-Swedish couple told us about the Skogar to Thorsmork hike, “the best they ever did”. We knew them enough to trust their nature skills and mountain tastes,…
Although the Telectroscope had a short existence (May-June 2008), this is a famous installation that once linked London (near Tower Bridge) and New York (Brooklyn Bridge). The modern art installation was constructed by Paul St George, a London based multimedia artist and sculptor who stated his inspiration was a project developed by his…
It is called “The Land God Made in Anger” or “The Gates of the bad place”. At a first glance, this name seems like an exaggeration of the local people, but the fact is that in the last two centuries many strange and tragic accidents occurred along the coast. In…
