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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.

Seafood

Vín & Skel - Laugavegur 55 Reykjavik, Tel. 534 4700

Vín & Skel, Restaurant

Vín & Skel

Vín og Skel (Wine & Shell), is a new restaurant in Reykjavik, specializing in shellfish.

It is situated in one of the back houses by Laugavegur. There you can have Wine and Shell! You walk through a narrow hall with a green carpet. There you enter a really small square and it is like you are in Southern France or a small town by the Mediterrian Ocean but not by Laugavegur in Reykjavik, Iceland!!

When entering the restaurant, which is quite small and cozy, you can either sit on the ground floor or on the 1st floor. You will notice the blackboard on the wall where you can read the menu.

The menu is simple as the cooking itself and the flavor of the shellfish plays the biggest roll. Courses are served in colorful pots and pans, made in the Czech Republic, and are in a perfect harmony with the interior. Oysters from France, clams from Peru, Mussels from Ireland and local lobster and scallops are among the courses served at Vin & Skel. The shellfish soup is tasty and delicious. Meatcourse is chicken cassoulet which is simular to the world famous ,,cock au vine”.

Selection of wine is quite good and you can enjoy every wine by the glass whether it is Chablis or Riesling from France or a glass of Nicolas Feulaitte Champagne with the oysters or as a pre dinner drink.