Reykjavík Grapevine - 18.07.2014, Page 40

40 The Reykjavík GrapevineIssue 10 — 2014LIFESTYLE
Viðey
Skarfabakki
Elding
Old harbour
Harpa
www.elding.is
Other adventures
Sea Angling daily at 11:00 from 1 May to 31 August
Puffin Watching daily at 9:30 and 15:00 from 15 May to 15 August
Elding Whale Watching schedule – all year round
* From 15 May to 15 September
** From 15 June to 31 July

Make sureit’s Elding!
ELDING
WHALE WATCHING
from Reykjavik
Call us on +354 519 5000
or visit www.elding.is
Jan-Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov-Dec
EL-01 / EL-02 / EL-03
13:00 13:00
9:00 9:00
13:00
9:00
13:00
9:00
13:00
9:00
13:00
9:00
13:00
9:00
13:00
9:00
13:00
17:00* 17:00 17:00 17:00 17:00*
10:00
14:00
10:00
14:00
10:00
14:00
13:00
20:30** 20:30
From Elding (Ægisgarður) to Viðey
11.50 14.50
From Harpa to Viðey
13.30 15.00
From Skarfabakki to Viðey
From Viðey to Skarfabakki
13.30
From Viðey to Harpa and Elding (Ægisgarður)
11.30 13.30 14.30 17.30
10.15 11.15 12.15 13.15 14.15 15.15 16.15 17.15
13.30
Summer Schedule 15 May - 30 September
14.30 16.30 18.302
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15.30 17.30
Really hidden treasure
off Reykjavik.
Well worth a visit.
“
Biffajk taken from TripAdvisor
Island
#videy
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But then common sense kicks in.
"Duh," you think, and your feet follow.
You thought you could get away with
not wearing deodorant in Iceland? You
stink. You're a zombie in your sweat-
drenched bro-tank, hiking up Bankas-
træti, turning right on Ingólfsstræti.
And then it appears, nondescript, un-
adorned haven for the heat-exhausted.
Yes, you have finally arrived at Bónus.
The sliding doors open before you
and you enter, humble pilgrim. But this
is only the vestibule, the waiting room.
Follow the path down the candy aisle,
past melting chocolate and liquorice
until, at last, you reach the twin slid-
ing doors which only open for the true
seeker of a place to cool off. Ah, the
chill air. Ah, the bountiful plenty of
imported, underripe fruits and veg-
etables.
Your warm body has gotten a
taste of coolness,
but why stop here
in the Outer Sanc-
tum? There, next
to the fruit juices,
you spy it—the very
Veil between death
and life, between
humanity and divin-
ity, between toma-
toes and milk. Draw
close, child; if they open for you, you
may proceed—to the Holy of Holies,
the Sanctum Sanctorum, the Dairy and
Meat Walk-in Refrigerator.
Like magic, your warm perspiration
turns to cooling balm. Gone are the
smells of simmering trash on the city
streets. There is a ste-
rility, a simplicity to the
olfactory ambience,
lightly incensed with
fish. RÚV plays faintly
in the background, not
as loud as in the rest
of the store. As you sit
your ass down on the
cool tile floor, next to
the skyr shelves, you
think to yourself, "Damn, this is chill."
It's 15 degrees. Fahrenheit? No, Celsius. Shorts weather? Fuck you, it's underwear weather.
The sun bears down on a thick, humid Reykjavík day. The sunbathers in Austurvöllur have
burnt to a crisp. You're parched, you're sweaty. Does anywhere in this country have air con-
ditioning? You look out to the harbour, considering a dip, but no—with all those ships, it just
doesn't seem safe…Where do you go? What do you do?
Words
Eli Petzold
Photos
Alda Villiljós
Best Place To
Cool Off On
One Of Those
Icelandic
Scorchers
Bónus Walk-in Refrigerator
“Draw close, child;
if they open for you,
you may proceed—to
the Holy of Holies, the
Sanctum Sanctorum,
the Dairy and Meat
Walk-in Refrigerator.”