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Icelandic Food: Fish and Chips

Icelandic Food: Fish and Chips

If you are even in Reykjavik dont let anyone tell you to eat a hotdog.  Go out and find an Icelandic classic: Fish and chips.  It comes highly recommended from the WanderingTrader.  Check out our Top 5 section for more Iceland sightseeing activities and dont forget to ask your tour guide for special events to find […]

Top 5 reasons for living overseas rather than vacationing

Everyone is very familiar it, that emotion that rises up as the time approaches.  You tally the days and scour the internet for advice along with detailed information to make it as enjoyable as possible.  Once it arrives it passes at a blink of an eye, prompting you to look forward to the next time […]

Video: Surfing in Iceland… Your kidding right?

This was actually quite fun during the Golden Circle Tour in Iceland! The geysers in Iceland are great to see but they don’t compare to anything like geysers available at Yosemite National Park in the United States.  I’m just glad we didn’t get a video of the brick sidewalk giving me a tattoo on my face […]

Icelandic Cuisine: Do you know what a PUFFIN is?

Icelandic Cuisine: Do you know what a PUFFIN is?

A Puffin is a sea bird that is a cross between a penguin and a duck; cute, colorful, and full of feathers.  If you are an environmentalist or a vegetarian please stop reading this blog post because I am going to talk about how delicious they are to eat!  Not only did I try puffin, […]

Mid Atlantic Ridge: Golden Circle, Iceland

Mid Atlantic Ridge

They call Iceland the land of fire and ice for a reason, here you can see part of the convergence of the North American and European tectonic plates.  This part of the mid atlantic ridge is found at Thingvellir National Park.  One of the glaciers we visited was the actual volcano that exploded and stopped air […]

Working Abroad – Day Trading & Travelling – Iceland

Location: Reykjavik, Iceland – “The land of fire and ice” Lodging: Couch Surfing         Internet:  DSL (landline)  Backup: Siminn Mobile Broadband (3g) Airfare: Jetblue: Tampa – Chicago  Icelandic Air: Chicago – Iceland (check out Icelandic Express) Do you remember that volcano that exploded in Iceland that stranded millions of travelers because of the […]