Reykjavik feels like the sort of place we visitors pass through on our way to somewhere more interesting.
It’s small (population about 120,000) and the main shopping streets remind me more than anything of Queenstown in New Zealand. Like that city, Reykjavik is where visitors book tours to adrenalin-pumping adventures – hiking, whale-watching, glacier walking, horse riding and volcano spotting.
Then we fill in a day browsing countless shops selling outdoor gear, eating pizza and drinking too many cups of coffee. The coffee here, incidentally, is excellent and I can recommend the Kaffitar chain. I’m still shaking slightly from the double cappuccino.
To keep us entertained while we wait for the real fun to start, Reykjavik has scattered art along the waterfront and in other public places.

Icelandic film director Hrafn Gunnlaugsson calls himself 'a raven', collecting objects for his recycled house.
I think you need a bicycle seat cover just like that one. I want to go to Iceland!
A knitted bike is warm and comfortable, but less good in the rain and mud. Yes, you do want to go to Iceland, though it’s not all that easy to get there. So it’s far less crowded than other beautiful places.
I love the Long ship reinterpretation. Stunning and totally evocative of the original such such an awesome way.
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