by Iceland Unwrapped by Helgastina | Apr 7, 2021 | Blogs
It´s been a long time now. A long time since we have travelled the world. Iceland, which has seen incredible increases in tourism since the financial crisis in 2008, is currently facing 10% unemployment because of collapse in the tourism business since the outbreak of...
by Iceland Unwrapped by Helgastina | Sep 4, 2019 | Blogs
Have you ever dreamed of opening up a bottle of wine by the ocean? A friend of mine inspired me by writing down one hundred things she wanted to do or accomplish in her life. I followed her example and did the same. I started of with the most obvious things (like...
by Iceland Unwrapped by Helgastina | Oct 23, 2018 | Blogs
The funniest thing many of us Icelanders know how to do is to make foreigners taste our food. I have made countless “enemies” through the years while encouraging people to have a bite of shark with me, with a schnapps of course, to survive the experience....
by Iceland Unwrapped by Helgastina | Aug 28, 2018 | Blogs
I guess some of you have seen videos and pictures online of visitors to Iceland tasting something terrifying as rotten shark, or fish that smells like ammonia. It might seem that Icelanders walk around in wool sweaters all day, while eating challenging parts of...
by Iceland Unwrapped by Helgastina | Aug 10, 2018 | Blogs
A few reasons why September is a good month to travel to Iceland. So let´s imagine a day. You are hiking in the mountains with the farmers in a little fjord helping with collecting the sheep. On your path you taste fresh blue berries straight from the bush. You get a...
