A British couple on honeymoon in Reykjavík found it difficult to escape other tourists during their stay in Reykjavík. Bloggers Caroline and Chris spent two days in Iceland’s capital, a city they’d both “dreamt of going to for years” but found the sheer volume of British, Kiwi, Aussie and American tourists to be “quite a shock”.
“All in all, we liked Iceland and it was definitely worth going to. The scenery was mind-boggling and like nowhere else on earth. We’ll never forget it. But it’s probably not somewhere we’ll go back to soon. Reykjavik just felt a bit false and too touristy. I don’t feel we got much sense of the real Icelandic people or culture because everything was aimed at visitors. There was chatter in the press and between the local people (when we found some!) about the impact on the city of this sudden tourist boom: perhaps it’s just too trendy a destination at the moment,” they wrote.
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A British couple on honeymoon in Reykjavík found it difficult to escape other tourists during their stay in Reykjavík. Bloggers Caroline and Chris spent two days in Iceland’s capital, a city they’d both “dreamt of going to for years” but found the sheer volume of British, Kiwi, Aussie and American tourists to be “quite a shock”.
“All in all, we liked Iceland and it was definitely worth going to. The scenery was mind-boggling and like nowhere else on earth. We’ll never forget it. But it’s probably not somewhere we’ll go back to soon. Reykjavik just felt a bit false and too touristy. I don’t feel we got much sense of the real Icelandic people or culture because everything was aimed at visitors. There was chatter in the press and between the local people (when we found some!) about the impact on the city of this sudden tourist boom: perhaps it’s just too trendy a destination at the moment,” they wrote.
Read the full blog post here.
