Blogging Reykjavik

This is Perlan (The Pearl) Reykjavik’s pride and joy. When the majority of City council (in the late 1980´s), with major of Reykjavik leading the way, decided to build Perlan it caused much controversy and arguments but over time the people of Reykjavik have learned to love this place and now mention it with pride. Perlan is built on top of a hill (Öskjuhlíð) in middle of Reykjavik. The foundations are hot water tanks that supply part of Reykjavík with their hot water for heating houses and such. On the ground floor of the building you can often find all kinds of markets like book market or CD´s on sale and sometimes exhibitions of all sorts. On 3d floor there is a coffeehouse and ice cream shop and you can go out on a balcony where the view is magnificent. At the top floor you will find a fine Ala Carte restaurant on a rotating platform. In the time it takes to eat your meal you’ll get 360° view of the Capital area and surroundings, which is a very nice way of spending an evening. Keep in mind though that this is not a low budget resturant, but well worth the price. On the bright side, if we consider the formula of H = P * Kr, your meal there should be quite healthy.


At the hillside of Perlan there is a artificial Geyser that at daytime sends it’s strokes of water a few meters up in the sky every 15 minutes or so. In the nighttimes it just sends up a mystic vapour and adds a little magic to the surroundings.



Kitty all rights reserved

First post by the latest member of BloggingReykjavik.NET, please welcome the very talented Kitty

- The Thor

Reykjavík Capital area can be very nice at nighttime. Travelling in Reykjavik at night you don’t have to be scared of the dark because in Iceland we produce so much electricity that we don’t know what to do with it all, so we tend to light all kinds of buildings, art work and almost everything you can think of.
Every road has streetlight with no more than 10 meters apart, that applies to our main streets and to smaller residetial areas even unmanned streets that run for 20 km (12,5 miles) between towns


Icelandic University and Reykjavik airport



Church at Kopavogur


Háteigskirkja (Church)


Landakotskirkja (Catholic church) and Landakot hospital


Landspitalinn (Iceland University Hospital)



Kópavogur


Little dam at Ellidavatn at the outskirts of Reykjavik

Kitty all rights reserved