Welcome to Iceland Guest - Your Online Travel Guide.

Iceland Guest is an information website for your travel to Iceland. On this site you can get all the tourist information you need for your vacation in Iceland. We hope that you will find this online travel guide useful in planning your holidays in Iceland.

About Iceland
Iceland is a refreshingly unconventional travel destination. The Icelandic nature is unspoilt, exotic and mystical with its spouting geysers, active volcanoes, tumbling waterfalls, towering mountains, vast lava plains and magical lakes. Iceland’s fjords, glaciers and highland plains present visitors with some of the most beautiful and enchanting places they will ever see, as well as a rare feeling of utter tranquillity.

For travelers on a quest for action, Iceland’s pristine nature offers great potential for outdoor activities such as snowmobiling, horse riding, cave exploring, hiking, swimming, skiing, river rafting, kayaking and mountain safaris on modified four-wheel drives, to name but a few. Iceland supports a surprisingly diverse Nordic flora and fauna and is an ideal place for ornithology enthusiasts, while also offering some of the world’s best whale watching destinations.

About Reykjavik
Reykjavík sometimes feels like a cosmopolitan capital and a tiny seaside village - all wrapped up in one. But Reykjavík has the best of both worlds; the qualities of a modern, forward-looking society complemented by a close connection to Iceland‚s beautiful and unspoilt nature.

Reykjavík’s legendary nightlife is bolstered by plentiful cultural and social happenings in addition to an abundance of first-class restaurants. The size of Reykjavik city centre is also limited enough to allow for easy navigation by foot. Reykjavík has been described as a young and daring city that is characterized by strong contrasts. Conveniently small, clean and safe, it is more or less free from the major problems that haunt many other capitals. Big city events are frequent, the winter lights festival finished recently with thousands of participants and more tourist at this time of the year than we are used to.

International Cuisine

Skólabrú - Pósthússtræti 17 Reykjavik, Tel. 562 4455

Skólabrú

Skólabrú was built in the year 1907 in the center of old Reykjavik. Icelands Surgeon General Jónas Jonassen built this stately house for his daughter Sophia and his son-inlaw, lawyer Eggert Claessen.

The best known owner of Skólabrú was ophthalmologist and honorary citizen of Reykjavík, Kristján Sveinsson, he worked in his clinic in Skólabrú for over 50 years. Dentist Jón Kristinn Hafstein also had his clinic in Skólabrú for almost 50 years.

The restaurant Skólabrú opened early year 1992 after a thorough renovation of the house where the emphasis was to preserve the original architecture.

In spring 2004 the restaurant was renovated again by the new owner Hendrik B. Hermannsson. The restaurant Skólabrú is proud of its excellent cuisine with french inspiration where the menu varies according to the season.

In addition to the warm atmosphere, high quality service and gourmet menu, Hendrik and his elite team will ensure a unique experience and that the restaurant is always in top class.

The restaurant Skólabrú recently got the best grade you can get in the oldest and established newspapers in Iceland, Morgunblaðið. The restaurant critic gave the cuisine five stars of five possible.

The elegance and classic style is preeminent and the restaurant injects the feeling that it could be an upper class British or French restaurant. The proprietors don't follow the newest trends, but rather emphasize all that has worked through the years, the atmosphere, classic and dignified.

The cooking and the service are completely in harmony with the atmosphere, but in addition the service benefits from the closeness of Hendrik Hermansson who knows better than most how to take care of his guests.

Skólabrú
Pósthússtræti 17
101 Reykjavík
Tel. 562 4455
Fax 562 4470
E-mail: skolabru@skolabru.is
Website: www.skolabru.is