Follow the Vikings North – Australian Travel to Iceland
Australian travel to Iceland is increasing and people from down under are truly welcome here. Heather D. Linnett hails from Australia but she has traveled more around Iceland than most people. Heather is an Australian who loves Iceland. She estimates that she has accumulated over 50…
Ivory Vikings – Solving the Mystery of the Lewis Chessmen
I have had many great guest authors who have contributed to Stuck in Iceland. Nancy Marie Brown is squarely in the celebrity category of my guest bloggers. She recently published a new book called Ivory Vikings: The Mystery of the Most Famous Chessmen in the World and the Woman Who…
Seeing the Northern Lights and Stargazing in Iceland
Sævar Helgi Bragason is Iceland´s stargazer-in-chief and I am happy to call him my friend. He heads the largest astronomy club in the country and is a celebrity and a local hero for almost single-handedly organizing a massive national event for the 2015 solar eclipse…
See the Huge Viking Hall Excavated in Reykjavik
Archaeologists were in for a big surprise when they were researching the ground where a new hotel is going to built in Lækjargata street in the center of Reykjavik. They had expected to find buildings from the 18th and 19th century underneath this former parking…
Finding the Holy Grail in Iceland
Update 3rd July 2015: Sofia and Alex did reach their Kickstarter project. They have a special deal with us here at Stuck in Iceland: Should they discover an old cup in the Icelandic highlands we will get to drink Úlfur IPA beer from it. But…
The Icelandic Turf House Made for the Rich
Inequality has always been with us. It was of course prevalent in Iceland in the rural society that was the norm until the middle of the twentieth century. If you want to discover how the rich had it in Iceland back in the 19th and…
Those Germans Want More Icelandic Music!
We heard recently from a couple in Berlin called Frank and Jo are a couple who live in Berlin, Germany. Frank is a freelance cameraman and a video producer. Jo is a artist, has a PhD in geology currently works as a typesetter. They have a “slightly”…
Glimpse of World War 2 in Reykjavik
The British occupied Iceland on the 10th of May 1940, the same day that the German invaded Belgium, the Netherlands, and France. The primary purpose of the occupation was to strengthen Britain’s position in the battle of the Atlantic. At this time, German submarines were wreaking…
