Beyond the postcard - a summer evening at Búðir and Arnarstapi

There are places on the Snæfellsnes peninsula that I visit only when friends or family come and I need to show them the most popular spots. As a host I adapt to my guests’ preferences in that respect, though I often suggest something of my own to broaden their picture of this corner of Iceland.

The pattern is always the same - I go to a given place again, usually without much enthusiasm, and yet I still end up enchanted, again and again. Maybe because it's never the same. Light, nature, clouds, smells and sounds change and create a scene that seems familiar, yet new.

That was the case this time too, when, accompanying a friend, I once again visited the black church in Búðir and stopped by Arnarstapi. A simple walk turned into little discovery, because I had never been here in June - a month when even on our island everything is in bloom, it’s green, and it’s light almost around the clock.