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Michael Chapman is a British travel writer living in Reykjavík. A former scuba and lava cave guide, he draws on firsthand experience to write about Iceland’s nature and culture. He’s also the author of Hidden Iceland (2020).
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Given my longstanding soft-spot for unruly hairstyles, corduroy trousers and acoustic instruments, I was understandably excited to attend the final evening of 2017’s Reykjavik Folk Festival. Photograph above: RuGl performing Reykjavik Folk Festival 2017. Photo by Owen Fiene (2017) Privately, I hoped that I might, for one reason or another, be adopted into this ragtag group of musicians, artists and performers; my mind was filled with images of on-the-bar jigging, dusty worn fedoras, thin french cigarettes, ashed carelessly inside. What I found instead was a very dignified, self-confid
It was with a mild, yet very real apprehension that I learnt my brother (and fellow GTI writer) Richard and I were being sent to cover a helicopter tour, midway through a rather routine day at work. Our dalliances with the whirlybird had, until now, largely been restricted to a solitary experience in childhood, flying prepubescent and barefaced over Floridian marshland. That was in the early 90s. Since then, our only connection had been watching Apache crashes on YouTube. Neither experience had done much in the way of convincing us to go near a helicopter, let alone fly in one, but it was
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