Norður-Hvammur, Vík í Mýrdal

Norður-Hvammur, Vík í Mýrdal

Regarding all the logistics of traveling, my decision to find accommodations near Vík was one of the better ones I made. I intended to do the most of my explorations along the South coast of Iceland, after I'd visited Reykjavík. In the center of South Iceland coast is the small village of Vík í Mýrdal, or simply Vík. If I were to find accommodations there or near, I'd be 1 so close to all the places I'd intended to visit and 2 I'd not have the exhausting daily trouble of unpacking slash packing slash unpacking, lots of hopping from one guesthouse to bed & breakfast to hotel to only to be closer to whatever place I'd had to be there that next day. Do you see what comes of all this running around? All this here to there to there? it's exhausting and at the expense of time better spent exploring. Relax. I could relax. So, find a place central to them all. Exactly in fact, between coastal town of Stokkseyri in the west and Skaftafelljökull in the east.
 

Online with airbnb, I found a farm at Norður-Hvammur to be perfectly located (open this Já.is map pan out to see just how perfect this was). I could not know that Guesthouse Norður-Hvammur would become a place that at the end of the day I could truly feel, I'm coming home. Relax. I liked to think of Norður-Hvammur as gistiheimili rather than gistihús.  Guesthome.  Is that the better translation?

Martina, with Jón, are the hosts. I sorely wish I'd had taken
this photograph before he'd rusht off to Vík on an errand.

My ocean-view room has the right-most windows on the terrace.

 

View of the Norður farm and river Hvammá, from which
the Norður- and Suður-Hvammur farms get their names.

The breakfast spread.  Coffee, lamb paté, smoked trout, súrmjólk
and muesli, bread and orange marmalade, and more coffee
in the order of what I loved about breakfast!

Lush green pastures above the farm, we'd find sheep grazing there.
The Hvammá at bottom of photo.

James Wheare/Flickr

James Wheare/Flickr

The Hvammá flows south into Dyrhólaós Bay that's behind
Reynisfjara Beach and then into the ocean in the far distance.

I stayed here for a week. Take my advice. If you're staying in the area for more than a few days, stay here. As I've said, you really skip what's exhausting and get the exploring. You can expect both Martina and Jón to extra helpful when it comes to what you can do in the area and special places to discover. They are fluent in German and English and of course that's extra helpful. I was very impresst about their dedication to your having a great time visiting Iceland, but even more impresst to find, that if you were in trouble, they were going to be there for you. I saw this first-hand, and had a bit of reassurance when I had my own traveling goof up.

Jón has a wicked sense of humor so get him talking ;-)


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