Radek Werbowski

Iceland Explained

Society EN ↓ 3 episodes

Iceland Explained is for the ones who want to experience Iceland before they arrive, and for the ones already here who suspect the photo is not the point. This is A STORY. NOT A GUIDE, and not an audio tour telling you where to stand. It is Iceland told through wind, lava, salt, weather, folklore, towns, roads, silence, and pressure. Not what to capture. What to notice. What the place does to you. Because the island is indifferent to your itinerary. ICELAND. TOLD.

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Radek Werbowski

Episodes

Reykjanesviti: The Bronze Bird Staring at Eldey 06.06.2026 12:58

A bronze bird stands at the edge of Iceland, staring into the Atlantic. Offshore sits Eldey:the volcanic rock where the last Great Auks were killed in 1844. This is Reykjanesviti. Support independent Iceland Explained research, writing, audio, video, and field work on Ko-fi: https://ko-fi.com/icelandexplained In this episode of Iceland Explained, we travel to the southwestern edge of Iceland to ex...

Gunnuhver: The Ball of Yarn Trap - Gunna’s Ghost Beneath Reykjanes 04.06.2026 15:35

Gunnuhver looks less like a geothermal field and more like the Earth trying to escape through its own skin. At the southwestern edge of Iceland, seawater enters fractured volcanic crust, turns chemically unstable underground, and returns to the surface as boiling clay, acid steam, sulfur gas, and roaring geothermal violence. And according to Icelandic folklore, something is trapped down there. A g...

Blue Lagoon The Industrial Accident Behind Iceland’s Most Famous Spa 03.06.2026 18:25

The Blue Lagoon looks like a natural Icelandic miracle. It is not. Bláa lónið began beside the Svartsengi power plant on the Reykjanes Peninsula, where spent mineral-rich geothermal brine failed to drain back into the lava. Silica sealed the ground. A strange milky-blue lagoon formed in Illahraun - “Evil Lava.” Then people started bathing in it. What looked like industrial waste became relief for...