Dispatches From the Cold Seas – Maps and Dreams of a Changing Arctic
Further south, around lake Näsijärvi, the Nuotta Seine net fishermen have carried on oral traditions, knowledge and sacred relationship with fish in Finland. Their knowledge of p
A MINISTER PLEASE
The Tourism board pointed out that they have been pleased witht the response to their poster campaigns on the Tube and in the Metro, and that they plan to continue […]
POLAR OPPOSITES
Generally speaking, mountains and city culture tend to be mutually exclusive phenomena. Here nothing could be further from the truth. Standing on Mount Esja – the terrace in Reyk
LIFE BEYOND GULLFOSS
In the middle of the wastelands stands something resembling an airplane crash or modern sculpture, but it´s actually two warped, iron girders from the road that used to run throug
LIFE BEYOND GULLFOSS
From mighty death blow to a slap in the face The landscape between Selfoss and Vík is fairly uniform, verdant farmland with an occasional glimpse of ocean. This is the […]
ON THE RIVERBANK WITH BUBBI
The drugs and drink behind him and an early morning regime of workouts in the boxing gym have produced a man who exudes health and energy; a man in his […]
SEARCHING FOR SHANNON ELIZABETH
Seeing Höddi’s camera, some stop us to deliver quotes: “I came to enjoy the culture and the game itself” says John Poppy, a Heineken beer distributor from Phoenix. Never min
GET YER KICKS ON ROUTE ONE
Camping has become keeping up with the Jónssons Still more daring are those who choose to rough it in the hinterlands of suburban Reykajvík. The camping ground in Laugardalur nes
The West Meets Ice
Had I been given a broken saddle? Or worse, had a previous rider torn the horn off while being thrown from the horse? I looked to our Swedish tour guide […]
STICK PINS IN THEIR FEET AND SLAP THEM ON THE CHEEK
No, not a scene from the latest horror flick, but for me an average day at work last summer. It was only a plastic skeleton, but this shiny, clean heap […]
THE MOUNTAINS AND THE MOLEHILLS OF THE WEST FJORDS
With a dying fishing industry, rapidly shrinking population, and the locals’ rumored penchant for the occult, characterizations of this place tend to breed a certain air of melan
We were here first
It’s about this time of year that we start to poll up in this little island that you like to call home, and over the last few decades our visits […]
CHURCHES
Hallgrímskirkja The mother of them all. Sort of spaceshippy and/or phallic in appearance. Took a lifetime to complete, as it was originally planned in 1914, construction started i