Category Archives: thingvellir

Silfra: Probably the closest you’ll get to space-walking

Warning: diving in Silfra will give you several moments of clarity.
Iceland may not be the first country to enter your mind when you think about snorkeling or scuba diving — as we’re sure you do, like, all the time. It’s cold and the underwater life hardly rates high on the Attenborough-scale.
Still, there are some remarkable […]

24 January 2007 – 17:44 | By Margrét | Also posted in iceland, southern iceland, nature, Adventure in Iceland, nudity, Silfra, scuba diving | Comments (0)

See, here’s the Thing

Thingvellir, the site of Iceland’s ancient parliament, is where the Thing-Men used to hang out at the Law Rock. And no, we’re not talking about action heroes or comic books.
We can’t think of a better subject for the second post of this blog on matters Icelandic than the place where some of the most […]