Iceland

Take a winter road trip from Iceland’s second city, Akureyri, through a northern peninsula framed by fjords and punctuated by isolated herring-fishing villages.

As we sipped our G&Ts and watched the sun glistening on the water in the late evening, we reflected on the events that had brought us to this beautiful spot. A few hours ago, we’d resigned ourselves t

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The Innuit have a specific word – iktsuarpok – to describe the anguish of waiting. By day three of waiting for my flight to Greenland, I am feeling a strong sense of iktsuarpok. The majority of visito

Dreaming of escape on Ireland’s far-flung islands, David Bradford finds the reality of remoteness not quite as simple as it seems