Icelandic style

Icelandic style is cool, sleek and streamlined.  Simple and understated.  Clean lines.



Another day in town, though today - the sun was out! COLD and BRISK though I understand it gets much, much colder.  Today I could see the water and Mount Esja which is not a single mountain but a volcanic mountain range made from basalt and tuff.  I didn't know we were so close to the water!



Met Trib and Nandita at breakfast, from New Jersey - who travel the world over and spoke of their 45 days "around the world" trip in the last couple of years.  They hope to get to Hawaii in the next couple of years.

The taxi drivers have been incredible wealth of information.  Where to eat.  Not to get sucked into the idea of seeing the Northern Lights with the low cloudy weather.


Hallgrimskirkaja is a strikingly modern Lutheran church both interior and exterior.






















High vaulted ceilings yet simple details everywhere.






These two buildings are across from one another.
Tradition and eclectic.

Old town streets...

Vikings are coming! 

Huh? Chuck Norris GRILL?

Old town Reykjavik

Breakfast at Nordica Hilton Executive Lounge...planning my day.  Learning about what to drink, eat and visit.

Nordic salmon is my favorite.  Light, oily, flavorful.

The lounge host shared her favorite coffee shop in town:  Kaffitar.  Woman owned, fair trade sourced, roasted in house.  Quaint. lovely. Tomorrow, I'll try another on the list of top 5 coffee houses.

 Christmas coffee. with cinnamons and brown sugar. 

Here are a few funny sites in old town..

famous hot dog stands, all over Reykjavik.

Yea, I didn't check into it.


Ode to the Icelandic Christmas trees in shops!

4.5 hours of daylight, yea, it's gray...

love this

sweet


I was told that two meals I should have are Lamb stew, steak or anything lamb AND the Arctic char, or Cod or River salmon.  

Window shopping.  Simple clean lines.

these would look sweet not he Kai and Keira!

lamb at Ostabudin

the beets were even great, I don't always enjoy them!

and a little note WHY the lamb is so good.

Largest church in Iceland. Hallgrims.