Rachel & Jake were completely unfazed, they just made those freezing droplets falling from the skies their new best friends. Fully embraced the weather and laughed and danced in the none stop downpour.
It was a dark and moody winter’s day when we set out to explore the forgotten fjord, Hvalfjörður, with Elen & Jody. On the short journey from Reykjavík we drove through pouring rain and strong gusts of wind but when we reached our destination in the valley at the bottom of the fjord the wind died down and the rain turned into a drizzle.
Summer in Iceland is our favourite season, for a short time each year this cold rock in the north Atlantic is transformed into a green oasis. An island filled with all kinds of birds singing not just the lonely croak of the ravens, you can hear the wind rustling through the leaves of trees instead of…
So where to begin with this fairytale in the West fjords…? It seems that every time we visit that magical corner of Iceland the greater the adventures we experience. And this time around it wasn’t the weather or the dramatic landscapes that where the main instigator of the story, although they did a great job of setting the scene. No, the real heroes of this story are…
We are often asked what our favourite place in Iceland is and for the past few years the answer has always been the same: the West Fjords. It's hard to put into words why, but this pretty remote and funny looking peninsula that juts out of north west Iceland has a special kind of…