Attavita Iceland

28/10/2026

Reykjavík doesn't hide its art behind gallery walls. Whole buildings downtown are canvases, filled in through Wall Poetry, a project that pairs Icelandic musicians with international street artists to turn plain facades into something you stop and stare at.

Walk down Hverfisgata and you're basically in a free outdoor museum. No tickets, no opening hours, just paint and concrete doing something unexpected.

It says a lot about a city when its art lives in the street instead of behind glass.

What's the best street art you've stumbled on by accident? 🎨

28/10/2026

Reykjavík doesn't hide its art behind gallery walls. Whole buildings downtown are canvases, filled in through Wall Poetry, a project that pairs Icelandic musicians with international street artists to turn plain facades into something you stop and stare at.

Walk down Hverfisgata and you're basically in a free outdoor museum. No tickets, no opening hours, just paint and concrete doing something unexpected.

It says a lot about a city when its art lives in the street instead of behind glass.

What's the best street art you've stumbled on by accident? 🎨

21/10/2026

Landnámssýningin is where Reykjavík's whole story starts underground. At Aðalstræti 16 sits the excavated remains of a Viking longhouse from the 10th century, found by accident during construction in 2001. Follow the exhibition further and it leads you to Aðalstræti 10, the oldest surviving building in the city center, where the story continues into more recent centuries.

One museum, a thousand years, no big jump required.

What era of history do you find yourself drawn to most? 🏛️

30/09/2026

Walk five minutes from Arnarhóll and the story shifts. Reykjavík's Old Harbour was once the beating heart of a fishing nation: wooden boats, salted cod, a town that lived by the sea's schedule, not its own.

Today it sits beside Sólfar, the Sun Voyager: a steel dreamboat pointed straight out to open water, built not as a Viking ship but as a promise of undiscovered territory, hope, progress, freedom. Old harbour, new symbol, same horizon.

That's Reykjavík in one frame: a city that keeps one foot in its fishing past and one pointed at whatever's next.

Old town or waterfront... Which pulls you in more when you land in a new city? ⚓

23/09/2026

Every journey needs a starting point. Ours is Arnarhóll: the hill where Ingólfur Arnarson, Iceland's first permanent Norse settler, is said to have thrown his öndvegissúlur (high seat pillars) into the sea and let the gods decide where he'd build his home. Wherever they washed ashore, that's where he settled. That became Reykjavík.

We're about to trace a bigger route from here, all the way up Iceland's Ring Road. This is mile zero.

Ever trusted a decision entirely to chance? Tell us about it. 🧭

25/12/2025

04/12/2025

I went on an Aurora your the day before, but it was to cloudy to see anything. Yesterday this happened 🤩 What a treat!

08/10/2025

Reynisfjara Beach is closed today due to strong winds and dangerous waves.
Please don't enter the red zone and stay on the backshore to watch the stunning beach from a distance.
Stay safe!

19/12/2021

🇺🇸/🇬🇧 In 2017 I took my boyfriend (now husband) to Iceland to show him the country I fell in love with all those years ago. When we arrived in Ísafjörður, a very comfortable and peaceful feeling fell over the both of us. Right there and then we decided that if we were lucky enough to welcome a daughter in the future, we would name her after that special town.

Last October I gave birth to our daughter, Isa Anne 😊
🇳🇱 In 2017 heb ik mijn vriend (nu echtgenoot) meegenomen naar IJsland om hem het land te laten zien waar ik al die jaren verliefd op ben geworden. Toen we aankwamen in Ísafjörður viel er een vreemd gevoel van rust en veiligheid over ons. We hebben daar en toen besloten dat als we het geluk zouden hebben om in de toekomst een dochter te mogen verwelkomen, we haar naar die speciale stad zouden vernoemen.

Afgelopen oktober is onze dochter Isa Anne geboren 😊
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31/08/2021

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