Kex Hostel is one of my favorite places in Reykjavik for dining or going to concerts. It has all the charm of an abandoned biscuit factory (which it is, Kex is an Icelandic word for biscuit) while it also has the charm of a typical hipster Berlineske hostel. It doesn´t have the neon signs or…
Category: Interesting and fun
Jörmundur´s Vintage Clothes Shop
From Wednesdays through Sundays when walking past Laugavegur 25 you can see a lonely clothes hanger standing outside with maybe a couple of tweed jackets or coats hanging on it. It´s pointing you inside to the cellar of that building. Today I manned up and entered, and boy oh boy was I in for a…
The Tuk Tuk tour
I was walking one day down Laugavegur towards Lækjartorg when I noticed a big yellow bike thingy on the square, like a Thai Tuk Tuk but motorized. What was funny about that is that my friend, fashion designer Ranna (http://www.rannadesign.com/) was actually standing outside one of the cars in a TTT uniform, turns out she´s…
Go feed the ducks
There are few past time activites that have become so infused into the culture of the people of Reykjavik than feeding the ducks in the pond by Ráðshúsið (House of The Municipality of Reykjavik). Bare in mynd though that during spring and early summer that the seagulls can get pretty vicious and the ducks are…
What can I do in Reykjavik?
Here we will point out fun things you can do inside the Reykjavik area.