Ever since Icelandair started providing direct flights between Reykjavík and Nashville, Iceland has grow to be a bucket-list vacation spot for many Center Tennesseans. With 4 nonstop flights every course each week, a visit to the wonderland that’s Iceland is lower than seven hours — or to place it one other approach, shorter than the drive to expertise the wonderland that’s Gulf Shores, Ala.
Whereas I really like a Bushwacker on the Flora-Bama as a lot as the subsequent man, I’m rather more intrigued to find the magic of Iceland, a rustic that has lengthy been a favourite vacation spot for vacationers searching for cheerful folks, fascinating meals, pure wonders and perhaps even an opportunity to expertise the aurora borealis.
These flights journey in each instructions, and from June 26 to twenty-eight, representatives from Impressed by Iceland will likely be in Nashville for 3 days of occasions designed to introduce us all to their truthful nation. Among the many deliberate festivities are an Icelandic Supper Membership, music and comedy reveals, and an immersive film simulating the magic of the Northern Lights.
Thursday evening’s spotlight would be the supper membership starting at 7 p.m. at Nelson’s Inexperienced Brier Distillery. The $99 meal will characteristic Icelandic Chef Hafliði Halldórsson making ready and demonstrating the best way to cook dinner up an Icelandic feast, drawing his inspiration from the award-winning programs of the 2024 Icelandic Culinary Staff. The menu contains wine pairings, and it seems actually intriguing:
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First Course
Gradual-cooked Arctic char with Icelandic wasabi cream, kohlrabi, cucumber & apple salad. -
Second Course
Grilled Icelandic lamb loin with fondant potato, sautéed collard greens, pickled pearl onion, glazed carrot, and lamb jus. -
Third Course
Skyr and white chocolate ganache with blueberries and lemon meringue.
Tickets are at the moment offered out, however you possibly can signal as much as be notified if there’s a cancellation.
Different nonculinary occasions through the go to are free to attend, however nonetheless require reservations. Thursday evening, Row One Stage on the Cannery will host a night of Icelandic music curated by Iceland Airwaves that includes artists Árný Margrét, superserious, and DJ Hermigervill. Seize your free ticket at the occasion web site whereas they final.
The following public-facing occasions will happen on Saturday, June 28, beginning with Icelandia Presents: Northern Lights Present on the Journey Science Heart. The immersive movie combines science, artwork and historic storytelling to discover the aurora borealis, considered one of Iceland’s most iconic points of interest. Attendees will be taught the place the northern lights come from, how they kind and the way they’ve impressed legends for hundreds of years. The movie will likely be proven on the high of the hour from midday till 2 p.m. within the Sudekum Planetarium on the Journey Science Heart. Enroll without cost tickets, and arrive early to be sure you get in!
Later that day, from 5 till 7 p.m. at Nelson’s Inexperienced Brier, a pair of well-known Icelandic comedians will share a number of the actual tales behind the quirky truths, cultural oddities, and straight-up unusual realities which can be a part of on a regular basis life within the Land of Hearth and Ice. Ragnar Ísleifur and Bergur Ebbi may also supply recommendation for vacationers and level out what nearly each vacationer does and will get fallacious on a go to, together with trying to pronounce Reykjavik. As a bonus, Iceland Lodge Assortment by BERJAYA is treating visitors to complimentary cocktails, so register on your free ticket at the occasion’s webpage.
If this evokes you to make a go to in particular person (and it ought to!), Icelandair will likely be operating a particular sale from June 25 to July 7 with round-trip fares to Iceland from Nashville beginning at $449 (for journey between Sept. 15 and Dec. 29, 2025).
