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Guide to Icelandic turf houses
On the outside, the roof grows grass. I read that the traditional kind of turf house is not built in Iceland anymore, but new ...
If you find yourself in Iceland when a wispy fog rides in off the Arctic Ocean ... held up on either side by pyramidal mountains, is the best seat in the house. The hotel, which doesn’t feel like a ...
“He's one of the few people in Iceland that still knows the turf house trade.” Kristinsson sourced his turf from Iceland’s Reykjanes peninsula, where it contains so much volcanic ash its ...