At around 8.30am, without fanfare or announcement of any kind, a small black tour bus pulled up outside our Airbnb flat in suburban Rekjavík. Seemingly sunk in knee-high powdery, crystalline snow – freshly fallen from the blizzard the night before – the bus was a glowing beacon in a dark November morning, the sun not rising until 9.15am. Inside, our tour guide from Geo Iceland, a company specialising in small day tours of Iceland’s most notable natural attractions, waited in a traditional Icelandic sweater, all thick wool and delicate patterns, slightly frazzled from use. After a cheery greeting, Steinþór – which he later told us … Continue reading Snow, Skyr and the Sublime in the Land of Fire and Ice