Reykjavík
Bookstore crawl + whiskey bar
Quiet, bookish, rain-proof. Bobby Fischer's old secondhand shop, then a dram on Laugavegur.
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A Reykjavík date that makes the rain feel like a bonus. Start at Bókin, the cluttered secondhand bookshop on Klapparstígur where Bobby Fischer used to spend his afternoons. Floor-to-ceiling shelves, paperbacks in six languages, the owner's cat. Don't try to organise anything — browse.
Walk up to Mál og Menning on Laugavegur, the big new-release Icelandic bookstore with a café upstairs. Spend twenty minutes on the Icelandic-poetry-in-translation shelf.
End at Dillon Whiskey Bar, a dark wooden room with two hundred bottles and a fireplace. Order two different drams and read each other what you picked up.
The plan, stop by stop
- 1
Bókin secondhand bookshop
Legendary cluttered used-book shop where Bobby Fischer hung out. Shelves to the ceiling, unpredictable stock, resident cat.
- 2
Mál og Menning
The main new-release bookstore on Laugavegur. Great translations section, upstairs café for a coffee break.
- 3
Drams at Dillon Whiskey Bar
Wood-panelled whiskey bar with two hundred bottles and a fireplace upstairs. Order two very different pours and compare.