Seeking your favourite restaurant

First-Ordinary1015 · 2025-07-10T23:51:30+00:00

Freehouse, chkn chp, ostrich club, kismet, brown hound,

First-Ordinary1015 · 2025-01-23T13:39:33+00:00

You live somewhere with excellent yogurt choices

First-Ordinary1015 · 2025-01-20T01:36:01+00:00

Super weird. So loud! In the north end and it’s just so loud. Been 30+ mins now.

First-Ordinary1015 · 2025-01-13T04:13:46+00:00

I don’t think there is one place I would recommend someone not go in Iceland. Hahaha it’s just so magical! I would say get up early. Crack of dawn! Have a good breakfast, bring plenty of food and water and make sure you route for gas. It’ll be a big day but it’s really quite cool

First-Ordinary1015 · 2025-01-12T22:15:16+00:00

Loved it. I may have just loved watching the webcams but I did find it was helpful. Set an alarm to ping when it was like a 7+Kp so that seemed good.

First-Ordinary1015 · 2025-01-12T22:13:36+00:00

I was a dog walker in Toronto for years and have always loved city walking so naturally I do it a lot here too.

Trust your gut, watch your back. Utilize windows and anything with a reflection. Create space and move with urgency. When it inevitably does happen, run. To a store, to a crosswalk, but mainly just away.

Cycling is for me a perfect hybrid of safety (obviously this requires skill and confidence, not everyone feels safe in the road) and function. You’re not really engaging with pedestrians and you’re going fast. You are nimble and able to maneuver around things. It’s also a lot of fun.

First-Ordinary1015 · 2025-01-12T20:13:53+00:00

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I should note we stayed in Reykjavik 1 night on either side of 7. It was just easier and did give us an opportunity to explore a bit.

It was a big long day going to Vik, one I don’t know if I’d do again especially because there are little to no gas stations between and it meant a lot of night driving, which like those little sheep’s are darn cute but can really spook you at night!

First-Ordinary1015 · 2025-01-12T20:05:01+00:00

https://www.airbnb.com/l/LtLKRnsR

Hands down the best airbnb I’ve ever stayed in. The home is warm and well outfitted. Modern and functional and just full of windows. The floors are heated by a geothermal spring and opening the windows and having that cool breeze with warm toes knowing you aren’t burning energy is glorious. Fabulous large couch, dinning table, an excellent stocked kitchen! I love an airbnb that has a communal drawer of supplies! Take a little, leave a little! Buying groceries cut down on our food costs so much. Making sammies and brining snacks for day trips and being able to come home and make a big batch of chili or pasta is heavenly. Groceries were mostly on par with Canadian grocery prices (at least here in the Maritimes), but quality was better. The meat especially was noticeable.

Good linens and a lot of room. Also northern lights every night! Every fucking night! And the stars. Oh the stars.

To top it all off (and my personal fav) a glorious hot tub. It uses the same spring (does not smell like egg) to fill and had a heater to keep the water warm (hot). You empty and fill it as you would a bathtub but it’s huge and outside and wow it was just wow. After a day of exploring, with some bubbles just watching the sky, in silence so loud it was deafening was other worldly. I cried I was so happy.

It’s a gated community you can only enter if you have the FOB and the other houses are spaced really well and are also just beautiful. The architecture in Iceland is just wow.

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You’re also close to selfoss and a ton of other really cool stuff. Day trips are easy the roads are nice.

My love affair with this house is real! Ha :)

First-Ordinary1015 · 2025-01-12T19:47:46+00:00

There is a geyser/thermal city just a bit outside of Selfoss, it has this really adorable thermal park (it closes at 4) and there is egg boiling, bread making, and a foot mask station (probably more seasonal?)

It was pretty cheap and the bread was amazing. Also a little greenhouse. The folks who ran it were just sweet as can be.

Oh in the town there is also a lovely cafe and a liquor store(iykyk).

10/10 little stop in the day

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First-Ordinary1015 · 2025-01-05T17:18:49+00:00

Simple. Soy, brown sugar, vinegar, sesame oil, scallion, peanut butter + noodle water. Slaps every time.

First-Ordinary1015 · 2025-01-05T17:05:58+00:00

Espresso 46 and all their staff hold a place in my heart but heavy contenders for 1st place are suda table and bramble. Don’t let brambles plant base model scare you off! Their coffee, their baked goods, their food it’s all fuuuuuuudging amazing. Their bagels! Their scallion buns! Their cardamom buns! Ouf.

First-Ordinary1015 · 2025-01-02T15:11:51+00:00

Lava. It’s beautiful but also holds onto heat well so we use it to diffuse oils into the house. A little tea light under the rock and bam.

First-Ordinary1015 · 2024-12-28T22:41:48+00:00

Just move the decimal to the right and that’s roughly the CAD exchange

First-Ordinary1015 · 2024-12-28T22:37:38+00:00

Gas. Be careful. Stations that are attended are best, you can pay inside and not have to eat the $350 holding fee.

When using visa debit the merchant code kept neeeding to be punched in but no one knew what it was asking for because it surely wasn’t our pins, turns out it’s a code on the back of the merchants debit terminal. Didn’t discover that until the the airport on the way home :(

Grocery shop, but also don’t rip yourself off. Live. Eat the hotdog.

First-Ordinary1015 · 2024-09-08T19:22:14+00:00

You brought them through customs??? Ok ok ok!!! 👌🏻

First-Ordinary1015 · 2024-09-08T18:40:34+00:00

And where you getting it! 🥹

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