Reykjavik (Footprint Pocket Guides) - Softcover

Dixon, Laura

Softcover

ISBN 10: 190477766X ISBN 13: 9781904777663

Publisher: Footprint Handbooks, 2006

Synopsis

The first guide to the northernmost capital city in the world covers everything from whalewatching to elf-spotting, bar-hopping to hot springs and how to cook a puffin for supper. This is the perfect guide for all self-respecting citybreakers looking for something a bit different. Visit the penis museum, be the next James Bond on the largest glacier in Europe, relax in a midnight spa or bathe in heated ocean bay, you can do it all here, in that peculiar, Icelandic sort of way.

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Review

"Super-stylish travel guides - perfect for short break addicts" Harvey Nichols magazine "Who should pack Footprint - readers who want to escape the crowd." The Observer"

From the Author

Go to Reykjavik. Honestly, just go. You've never lived until you've been to this weird corner of the world - and take this guide with you to give you a fighting chance of coping with it.

To an outsider, life in this city is all a bit barmy. It’s a party-all-night-until-the-next-afternoon-and-make-new-best-friends-along-the-way kind of madness. It’s an eating-grilled-guillemot-and-puffin-for-dinner madness. It’s a confusing similarity of names. It’s a mingling of the hot - volcanoes, natural springs and women- with the not - glaciers , chilled Brennivín and Viking beer.

And it’s so much more: 24-hour daylight in the summer; inspiring hiking and birdwatching; painfully hip bars and cafes; frighteningly strong coffee; striking modern architecture; a dearth of trees; a mountain that turns purple at sunset; a city with a sense of peace and purity; clean air with a tang of salt, sulphur and fish.

Go on, book a flight. You won't regret it.

Edition details

• Publisher: Footprint Handbooks
• Publication date: 2006
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 190477766X
• ISBN 13: 9781904777663
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 256