by site editor Rick McCharles
My first hike in Iceland was a half hour loop up and over the town of Holmavik, pop. 420.
You know it for the famed Museum of Icelandic Sorcery and Witchcraft. But I went there to fuel up my rent-a-car before setting out for remote fjords.
A “best hike” in Iceland MUST finish at a Hot Spring.
I parked at the Swimming Complex trailhead …
… looped up to the highest viewpoint …
… and back down to the stern Church, an essential feature of all fishing villages, no matter how small.
Here’s the rural Icelandic equivalent of Starbucks. (They are not much for signage in this land.)
In the window was a Blundenhottie (Icelandic for Barista) waving me in. I would have missed the place otherwise.
The Hot Springs were wonderful.
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