Driftwood
Iceland is a land of no trees. But along the northern coast of the extreme north-west of the island, the
Sorting
In the Reykjavik Art Museum at Hafnarhús there was, when I first visited with my brother in 2018, a room
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The organ in the Hallgrímskirkya in Reykjavik is a giant’s causeway of clustered steel pipes, five thousand two hundred
Herring and the Shetland Receivers
Get the nets. The whole sea’s boiling.
Peter Grimes (Montagu Slater)
The herring will set you free. After a
Gannet
The northernmost point of the British Isles is mostly gannets. Your last footstep, heading north, before you splash off the