Day tours in Iceland, Akureyri and Reykjavik

FAB Travel Ltd has moved the main office from Akureyri to Reykjavik.

Viking Solstice Festival will be held in the Viking Village Hafnarfjörður 14th – 17th June 2012. The festival is ideal for the whole family.

New and improved FAB Travel website was launched today. A new and advanced booking system enables users to book trips themselves via secure server, connected to the payment gateway DalPay in Dalvik. FAB Travel offers number of organized tours from both Akureyri and Reykjavík and dozens of FAB Travel´s affiliates offer activity, accommodation, as well as food & drink.

Do as Icelanders do, go skiing during Easter in North Iceland. Contact us to have an interesting offer for this occasion.

Fab Travel is working on a new brochure and webpage with new emphasis for tourists. It will include a selection of organized tours for groups of minimum 6 people. The company also offers to make tailor made tours where the traveller chooses the places of his interest. 

Auður Inga Ólafsdóttir is a new employee at FAB Travel and she will be in charge of the marketing. If you have any enquiries about the FAB Travel travelling brochure, tours, or anything else related, she is your contact person. Her e-mail is: audur@fabtravel.is. 

FAB Travel wishes its clients a happy new year. 

The final Yule Lad arrives today. He is Candle-Beggar, and is regularly to be seen trailing children around in order to try and steal their candles. It is worth noting, however, that modern-day wax candles would not satisfy Candle-Beggar's craving...he much prefers the old-fashioned smokey, sputtering candles made of tallow...because you can eat them !

This fella is Meat-Hook, and he tries to procure various cuts, joints and steaks etc. without being discovered...hence the meat-hook, of course. The hook is usually on the end of a long pole so that it can either be poked through a window or wheedled down a chimney (as illustrated on the left) in order to whisk away the goods !

This character is Door-Sniffer who, as you can see, is gifted with an abnormally large nose with which to sniff around doors (usually kitchen doors !) looking for tasty treats ! His favourite is "laufabraud" (leaf-bread), which is a thin and crispy wafer bread, usually deep fried in oil or fat. It is traditional to decorate the laufabraud with stencilled patterns before the frying takes place. There's usually a competition to make the best one ! Door-Sniffer has no interest in making them, he only likes to eat them !