What's open over Christmas and New Year in Reykjavik

Want to know which restaurants are open in Reykjavik over Christmas and New Year? You've come to ther right place. Luckily, there are several restaurants that stay open during the holidays.

Some are open every day, while some are closed on December 24, 25 and 31 and 1 January. If you're looking for a restaurant that is open then there is a list which you can find here.

Click on the link - to get the list of restaurants open over Christmas and New Year in Reykjavik.

Things to do in Reykjavik over Christmas and New Year

Reykjavik Bike Tours Holiday Schedule 2012 / 2013

Come ride with us over the holidays! You'll get a close up look at the Christmas lights in the city centre. You'll learn a few practical and interesting things about special Icelandic Christmas customs, and you get to be outside while doing light exercise.

We include the harbour area, city centre, University of Iceland campus, City hall, Parliament building and much much more on this 2.5 hour tour.


• When: December 24,25,26,27,28,29,30,31. Jan 1, 2.
• Duration: +/- 2.5 hours
• Distance: 7 km / 4.5 miles
• Starting time: 11:00 – (please see details below).
• Meeting time: 15 minutes before scheduled departure
• Meeting point: See a map of Reykjavik here.
• Difficulty: Easy
• Price: ISK 4,500 • Please note we do not accept credit cards, prior booking essential.
• Personal insurance is not included.
• Wear warm clothes and shoes. We have extra clothes just in case.

Please contact us if you'd like to rent a bike over the holidays.

We're #1 on Trip Advisor for all activities in and out of Reykjavik.
Winner Certificate of Excellence 2012

Reykjavik Bike Tours December 2012: 24,25,26,27,28 - at 11:00. December 29 - at 14:00, December 30 – at 10:00. January 2013: 1 January - at 14:00, and 2 January - at 11:00

Contact: Stefan @ Reykjavik Bike Tours – 694 8956 – bike@icelandbike.com – www.reykjavikbiketours.is

Tina Dico loves Iceland's south coast

Singer Tina Dico from Denmark loves the south cost of Iceland. Watch Skogafoss waterfall, lava fields covered with moss, national road number one and some rusted old trucks.

Tom Cruise Oblivion

Tom Cruise's new film the Oblivion screens in theatres in 2013. Parts of it was filmed in the amazing landscape in Iceland.

Two landmarks from the northern part of Iceland can be identified in the film:

 1 – Hrossaborg crater. Looks like an amphitheatre. It is about 400 meters / 1.400 ft. above sea level and rises about 40 meters / 120 ft. above its surroundings. The crater is north of glacier Vatnajokull, Europe’s largest glacier, and south of the Ring road. The crater is a popular place for travellers to have a picnic lunch sheltered from the wind.

2 – Dettifoss waterfall, Europe’s most powerful waterfall. This waterfall also appeared in the 2012 Hollywood film Prometheus.

Please contact Reykjavik Bike Tours for exciting off road bike tours in this amazing region of volcanic formations and stark beauty.

Lauren McCowan's pictures from September

Lauren McCowan visited Iceland in September 2012. She snapped a few photos while in Reykjavik and the Blue lagoon. Lauren took a couple of photos on her bicycle tour in Reykjavik.

First Reykjavik By Night - Cool weather and Northern Lights

Three brave Americans joined the first scheduled "Reykjavik By Night" tour offered by Reykjavik Bike Tours. The temperature was around freezing point and there was a bit of wind - luckily always in our back.

Karen Hill (Colorado), Louis (New York), Stan Hill (Colorado) at the start of the tour keeping warm in padded overalls supplied by Reykjavik Bike Tours.

From Reykjavik Bike Tour's headquarters at Reykjavik's Old Harbour, the small group cycled along the northern coast of the Reykjavik peninsula. First stop included the new and amazing Harpa concert, opera and conference centre.

Norther lights over Faxafloi Bay, and John Lennon s Peace tower on Videy Island to the right (the bluish steak to the right). The picture above was taken with a hand held camera and exposed for 15 seconds.

Lady Gaga received the John Lennon peach award from Yoko Ono here in Reykjavik 9 October. Lady ga then left the country with her dog in a private jet before the symbolic switching on the light ceremony on Videy Island. A record 1.800 people attended the ceremony this year - undoubtetly some went there especially to see Lady Gaga.

Second stop was at the famous sculpture "Sun Voyager", where the group enjoyed a reasonably good display of northern lights and a view of Yoko Ono's / John Lennon's Peace memorial called the Piece Tower. The memorial is a giant light strobe located on Videy Island, just off the coast of Reykjavik's import and export harbour. The light is switched on John Lennon's birthday 9 October, and switched off the day that he was killed in New York. It is possible to get to Videy Island by ferry operated by Elding Whale Watching Company.

Then on to Hofdi House, the place where the leaders of the two superpowers met in October 1986. Then to Reykjavik's central bus station, and Laugavegur the main shopping street. And the evening was rounded off at a bar in the centre of town. Three hours after we set off the tour ended at Reykjavik Bike Tour's headquarters at Reykjavik's Old harbour.

Thank you Karen and Stan, and Louis for joining the first Reykjavik By Night tour by bike!

Stefan

Gravity Biking someting new to watch

Gravity Biking is a new sport in which able bodied persons as well as handicapped persons can compete on even footing - so to speak.

News on 4 TV presenter described the sport as a "cross between mountain biking and go-carting".

"Anyone who wants a challenge will end up trying this," says Dave Buchanan the endurance mountain bike world record holder.

Seeing is believing, watch the video.
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