Grái Kötturinn
This small, six table café situated in the heart of old Reykjavik doubles as a bookshop/art gallery. While enjoying the massive, and legendary, breakfast special commonly known as “The Trucker” you can either accompany the meal by picking a book from one of the shelves or admiring the art on the walls. This is a Reykjavík type place, something that needs to be experienced in person; it is a particularly popular place during morning hours and the perfect place to start your workday.

With its ice-crisp air and geothermal pools tinged the colour of blue flame, the whole country of Iceland feels like one giant spa retreat. It shouldn't come as a surprise that Hotel 101 does too, but you just don't expect this kind of Euro-chic to crop up in the continent's tiniest, Lilliputian capital. Reykjavik can surprise visitors in a lot of ways, not the least of which in the jumble of oh-so-cosmopolitan boutiques just outside the hotel's doors.