Road trip · Iceland · 9 min read
Driving the Ring Road with the weather against you
Six days, four seasons a day, and the wind that took a car door off. What to reroute, what to skip, and where to sleep between the empty stretches.
Reykjavík · South Coast · Westfjords · Highlands
Iceland
Black sand, moss, weather that changes its mind hourly. The Ring Road, plus the fjords most people skip for time.
Iceland itineraries
Local life · Iceland · 5 min read
Skip the Blue Lagoon, swim where Icelanders swim
Every town has a geothermal pool costing about €7, open at 6:30am, full of locals arguing about football. The best nine I found.
Road trip · Westfjords, Iceland · 8 min read
The Westfjords detour nobody has time for
Three extra days off the Ring Road: one-lane gravel passes, a red-sand beach, and a swimming pool built into a cliff in 1923.
