Ocean Adventures By Brooke Hanson from Winnipeg, MB
I have been lucky enough to work with the Elding Whale Watching company during my family stay in Reykjavík.* I have been out on tours 6 times in 5 days, and each time has been an exhilarating and...
View ArticleFly Fishing & Living in the Moment by Natalya Jensen from Wisconsin
Today my cousin Steinn taught me how to fly fish. The farm I'm staying, Seglbúðir in Kirkjubæjarklaustur, has excellent streams and waters for fly fishing and beautiful scenery to match. I had some...
View ArticleFjord life - The Eastern Alps
By James Callahan.Iceland is certainly different from Atlanta, Georgia. Having lived in Georgia my entire life, subject to the conditioning of America, I can clearly see the undeniable importance and...
View ArticlePeople of Svarfaðardalur
By Thomas Arnason McNeil from Halifax, NSIt is a difficult thing to define the people of Svarfaðardalur, Iceland. The residents of this small valley, just a few kilometres from the fishing town of...
View ArticleThe World is a Small Place
Having grown up in the world’s second largest country by land area (Canada, for those unknowing of this factoid), where the population is much higher and considerably more spread out, and yet denser...
View ArticleGeysir and a Trek in Search of Solitude
By Justin Gailey from Port Angeles, WashingtonI spent a week of my homestay up near Geysir, the ultimate namesake for our English word “geyser”. It was a lovely area full of mountains, fields,...
View ArticleChasing Waterfalls and Learning about the Norse Gods
Rebecca Hayman from Kelowna, BCMy family decided they wanted to educate me on the Norse mythology of some of the local sights, We passed by Goðafoss, and Sigrún told me the story of why it was called...
View ArticleA Perfect Evening At Winnipeg Beach
Yesterday evening Vala and I went to what our host family (Barb and Eric) called “Music”. It was in Winnipeg Beach, and on the way there from Gimli we passed Siglavik, Miklavik and Husavik!Every week,...
View ArticleIcelandic as A Secret Language
For me, one of the most interesting parts of the Snorri West program was meeting people of Icelandic descent and hearing their stories. It is amazing to meet these people. Some of them have been to...
View ArticleKeeping Promises & Feeling Like Home
.By Gunnlaug Birta Þorgrímsdóttir from Búðardalur.Here in Manitoba, Minnesota and North Dakota every single person has opened their arms for me and the other Snorris. It has been so sweet and I feel...
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