It’s a half-hour boat ride from Ísafjördur, a town of 2,600 in northwestern Iceland, to the wildlife sanctuary of Vigur Island. This remote little world is home to 100,000 puffins, 10,000 eider ducks, arctic terns, Europe’s largest colony of black guillemot – and one human family. Vigur and the port town of Ísafjördur are part … Read More
The minute she stepped on our tour bus, I had a sinking feeling. Here we were, ready to set out on Iceland’s iconic Golden Circle tour, the thing everyone will tell you to do if it’s your first time in Reykjavík. It’s an eight-hour affair that takes you about 300 kilometers (190 miles) round-trip to … Read More
If the fog, as Carl Sandburg tells us, comes “on little cat feet” over harbor and city, then it surely arrives in Iceland on the paws of a lion. As we sailed through the Westman Islands, a small archipelago off Iceland’s southern coast, the view from our balcony was a thick foggy blur between land … Read More