Tag: Iceland

  • Discover our Great Winter Travel Itinerary in Iceland: essential Tips and Highlights

    Discover our Great Winter Travel Itinerary in Iceland: essential Tips and Highlights

    We visited Iceland in February 2026. In this blog, I share our winter itinerary with you as well as some essential travel tips and highlights. Car rental We rented a Kia Sorento at Lava Car Rental. Decent price, decent car, good service, hassle free. Fully equipped with all essential winter accessories. Itinerary: from Reykjavik to…

  • Laugarás Lagoon  – Visit Iceland’s unique top geothermal bathing experience

    Laugarás Lagoon  – Visit Iceland’s unique top geothermal bathing experience

    Looking for a stunning geothermal bathing experience in South Iceland? Let me share a place that truly surprised me: Laugarás Lagoon. We visited this lagoon, ideally located in the Golden Circle, on a bright, icy-cold winter day in 2026. And it turned out to be one of the absolute highlights of our trip. Why we…

  • Iceland – top 5 fantastic things to do

    Iceland – top 5 fantastic things to do

    Looking for some adventure in Iceland? Our top 5 Icelandic favourites. #1 Go hiking in the highlands Hiking in the highlands is a must for each traveler and perfectly feasible with kids. If you don’t want to drive yourself, you can go on an organised tour but a self-drive is an experience in itself. Landmannalaugar…

  • Explore Iceland – top tips for a great itinerary

    Explore Iceland – top tips for a great itinerary

    We explored the beautiful Iceland in the summer of 2021. From Keflavik to Keflavik round trip. In 17 days, 18 nights. In this blog, you find our travel route. As you can read in another blog, we stayed in summer houses throughout the country. Brussels – Keflavik Airport We took a direct flight Brussels –…

  • Iceland – hike superb Landmannalaugar

    Iceland – hike superb Landmannalaugar

    A must-do when visiting Iceland: walk in stunning Landmannalaugar, a vast area of unique beauty in Iceland’s southern Highlands and a paradise for hikers. We went for one day and enjoyed not only a spectacular drive but also a magnificent hike. Iceland at its very best! Colored rhyolite mountains Landmannalaugar is an exceptional area, part…

  • Iceland – useful tips & costs

    Iceland – useful tips & costs

    Iceland is a splendid destination. Waterfalls, volcanos, beautiful hikes, highlands, … but also a lot of distances to cover, limited accommodation and expensive. On top, Iceland comes with 4 seasons a day, so you’d better be prepared before you go. Below some general information and tips. In my blog ‘5 fantastic things to do in…

  • SPLENDID ICELAND WITH GREAT SUMMER HOUSES

    SPLENDID ICELAND WITH GREAT SUMMER HOUSES

    Summer houses, a family and Iceland. An ideal combination. So you can travel around at your own pace, build in the necessary breaks with teenagers and stay in accommodations that offer enough space? Well, consider summer houses. We planned, together with Nordic Travel, a trip of three weeks enjoying the best of Iceland. We stayed…

  • ICELAND – A LOST VENDING MACHINE

    ICELAND – A LOST VENDING MACHINE

    Just a very small blog. For a small green hut in a very special place. Looking for a vending machine in the middle of knowhere? Solar powered in a place where there isn’t even a lot of sun? Well, we found one in Iceland, up in the north. Somewhere halfway on route #94, between Eglisstadir and…

  • ICELAND – MAGNIFICENT PUFFINS

    ICELAND – MAGNIFICENT PUFFINS

    Puffins in Iceland. Worth driving around for. Just like whales, dolphins and seals. So, when visiting Iceland in the summer of 2021, we drove quite a bit of miles to spot these magnificent birds. Do you want to know where we found them? Then continue on reading this blog. Puffins are Iceland’s most wonderful birds,…