On the ground floor of Reykjavik's Hotel Natura, in the wing holding the conference rooms, in a corner adjoining the entrance to conference room number one, is a display dedicated largely to Bobby Fischer, the highlight of which is a chessboard signed by both Fischer and Boris Spassky. Presumably THE chessboard. Fischer stayed at this hotel for the 1972 match, when it was called the Hotel Loftledir.
Akureyri.
The Church of Akureyri.
Study #1 (For An As-Yet-Untitled Science Fiction Film), Godafoss, Myvatn.
Study #2 (For An As-Yet-Untitled Science Fiction Film).
Shaky nightscape by a fjord.
Lebowski Bar, Reykjavik.
Skolavrodustigir, Reykjavik, morning.
Two Against Nature redux?
I'll put up more if anybody would like. I would highly recommend traveling to Iceland.
Lovely photos. Hope you and Claire are having a great time!
Posted by: Peter Labuza | February 25, 2013 at 10:05 PM
Wow. I want to go to Lebowski's. Reminds me of a bar I visited in Belgrade called Glimmer Twins, which only played music by the Stones (but had every album, single & bootleg they'd ever recorded). Have a great trip.
Posted by: Paul | February 26, 2013 at 07:10 AM
Additional note: in the photo titled "Skolavrodustigir, Reykjavik, morning," that lovely stone building is the town jail. Apparently it has a charming walled garden inside.
Posted by: Claire K. | February 26, 2013 at 08:15 AM
I would watch the crap outta that untitled science fiction film.
Posted by: That Fuzzy Bastard | February 26, 2013 at 09:51 AM
beautiful
Posted by: atk | February 26, 2013 at 11:36 AM
I have an American friend who has an Icelandic friend who's the older brother of Thora Arnorsdottir, one of the unsuccessful presidential candidates in Iceland's election last year. Small world eh? :-)
Posted by: Oliver_C | February 26, 2013 at 11:50 AM
I'm curious, at this time of year, how many hours of daylight do you get?
Posted by: Jeff McMahon | February 26, 2013 at 03:39 PM
Lebowski Bar not the only Coens architectural reference in Iceland, apparently. The Church of Akureyri is clearly based on a miniature from the Hudsucker Proxy cityscape.
Posted by: Chris Labarthe | February 26, 2013 at 05:16 PM
Reykjavik looks lovely. Something tells me breakfast there must be a real treat. And no matter what reasons you had for choosing Iceland as a vacation spot, it's an additional positive that your tourist money is being spent in a country that rebounded from their economic collapse by allowing the banks to fail, jailing the corrupt financiers, and bailing out individual mortgage holders. From the perspective of the American political/economic orthodoxy, that's even more alien than the eerie landscapes.
Posted by: Reilly | February 26, 2013 at 08:23 PM
Still one of our absolute favourite trips. I think we averaged at least one "hot pot" a day, at least one of which involved locking eyes with the nearby dairy cows.
The story of the Coventry cathedral glass that ended up in Akureyri's church -- and for that matter in a Reykjavik church, too -- is one of those fascinating narratives of WWII.
Posted by: Gareth | February 28, 2013 at 10:44 AM
More photos please Glenn.
Posted by: MarkJ74 | March 02, 2013 at 10:15 AM
So what's the SF film? "Argo 2: Someone Was Left Behind"?
Posted by: Steven Hart | March 05, 2013 at 09:34 AM