Becoming a Westfjordian

The North-Western corner of the country. A place where the mountains meet the fjords at the edge of the Arctic circle. What seems like an extreme place to most, seemed like the perfect place to call home for Wouter and Janne.
In 2005, Wouter and Janne met in Reykjavík after both individually moving to Iceland to study and travel. It wasn't long before they started to travel the country together and took a trip to the Westfjords. They quickly fell in love with the small fishing villages and the slow living fjord lifestyle. There was one particular place that captured their hearts, the small village of Þingeyri, where they noticed a run-down house in the middle of town.
The house is named Simbahöllin. It was in especially bad condition when they found it, at the point of no repair to the eye of most. Yet for Wouter and Janne, they saw an amazing opportunity to create something special, all for the price of just 2,500kr ($20). It was here that their future together in the Westfjords began.
They sat down to tell us their story of integrating into the Westfjordian society and the history of their house Simbahöllin.
Read the full "Becoming a Westfjordian" NORÐUR journal story at 66north.com bit.ly/3t90ZzP
Video production: Þorsteinn Roy Jóhannsson & Benjamin Hardman
Music: Guðjón Stein Skúlason

[@wujBat]

I wonder how to maintain such small business so far away and be able to support whole family...

[@Lectuz]

Home is where you make it :)

[@lorenzbroll0101]

The native language is remarkably difficult to understand. It sounds as a mixture of all Scandinavian languages.