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The isolated village of Djúpavík is built up around its herring factory and has risen and fallen with the local fishing industry throughout the 20th century. The now-abandoned herring processing factory in Djúpavík was the biggest one in Iceland. We visited this rusting remnant of the local herring industry during our…

Our Dutch Embassy in Oslo was looking for a typical photo of Iceland for their Pop-up Embassy in Reykjavik. More than happy to be able to help them with a photo of an earlier West-Iceland trip. The photo of the harbour of Arnarstapi appears also on the Iceland country-page on…

Just returned from a great Photo-trip discovering the ice of Lake Baikal, Russia. Well organised by Charles Borsboom, Nordic Vision (The Netherlands). Here a view from above! Video “Lake Baikal in Winter”, Charles Borsboom Lake Baikal in Siberia is oldest, deepest and most voluminous lake of liquid freshwater on planet…

For almost five months a year Lake Baikal is covered with ice.  A great place to visit if you like landscape photography and/or macro-photography. Baikal ice is a rather interesting phenomenon. Its transparency is striking: it seems that you are walking on a huge mirror. Its diversity impresses a lot: the lake…

Richard Paas shows what a great week we had in his trip-report of our Nordic Vision week in North-Wales. Well done! https://vimeo.com/300114839

The region is steeped in history and was for almost a millennium known as the Kingdom of Gwynedd. The mountainous stronghold of Snowdonia formed the nucleus of that realm. To this day it remains a stronghold of the Welsh language and a centre for Welsh national and cultural identity. North Wales has a beautiful…

Something beautiful. Something clean. Something dramatic. Something serene. Tucked between Iceland and Norway in the North Atlantic Ocean (and politically part of Denmark), this self-governed group consists of 18 volcanic islands. The Islands have a population of nearly 50,000, and a language and culture of their own. The Faroe Islands…

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Just another perspective using the opportunity of the renovation of the building of the former Bayerische Staatsbank into a hotel.