We now offer a special edition of our popular Saltvík Comfort tour. We will spend our days riding and knitting, and we’ll start the tour with a visit to the annual knitting festival in Blönduós to get knitting inspiration and/or buy wool.

We have noticed that among our guests the typical Icelandic woolen sweaters are almost as popular as the Icelandic horses themselves. Many just like to buy one, but wearing a sweater custom made for you, or custom made by yourself is of course even better! Our good friend Jutta, who has been knitting already so many sweaters for the Saltvík “family” will be joining this tour and is ready to help everyone with their questions about knitting an Icelandic sweater.

On Saturday morning there is the possibility to meet up with Jutta at the handknitting association in Reykjavík to buy regular wool, if needed. We have noticed last year that they do not sell the most normal/regular wool at the knitting festival! After that we will pick up the whole group at BSI busstation (around 10:30) and drive to Blönduós where the annual knitting festival will take place that weekend. There is the possibility to meet other knit-enthusiastics, exchange ideas, shop for more (special) wool. After everyone has seen enough and has bought whathever they’d liked there, we will continue our drive to our farm Saltvík where we will get everyone settled in to their rooms before dinner.

The next 3 days of this tour we’ll be riding the trails around Saltvík farm along the coastline of the Arctic Ocean, just like we do during our regular Saltvík Comfort tours. Depending on the weather and the condition of the trails, we might ride 1 dayride with a packed lunch, and we’ll probably also take a sightseeing trip by our private car/bus to for example the waterfall Godafoss. When we’re not riding, we will gather in the cozy common area of the old farmhouse to (learn to) knit your own Icelandic sweater (or a scarf or blanket, or whatever you’d like to knit).

Note that you’d have to buy/bring your own wool, needles, pattern. When you book this tour we will get you in contact with Jutta to discuss which equipment you should bring and where you can buy it. Needles and patterns are probably best bought at home, but wool can probably be purchased at the handknitting association in Reykjavík. Jutta knows that shop well, so she can advise you beforehand on what to bring from home and what you could be here in Iceland.

As knitting is an important part of this tour, we can have a few seats available for non-riding guests as well. So if you have a friend who does not want to ride, but would like to enjoy Iceland and join the knitting; please contact us for availability and pricing.

We will visit the geothermal bath “Geosea” in Húsavík, and optional at extra- cost could be a whale watching trip from Husavík harbor.- Also, we will see if it is possible to pay a visit to a sheepfarm here in Iceland,- for those who’d like to see the producers of our beloved sweater material in real life 😉

Accommodation is in our old farmhouse in double/triple rooms with hottubs aside waiting for us after the ridingdays.

Ridingdays are Sun – Mon – Tues. Tuesday evening the group will fly back south after we finished our last ridingday. Note that dinner is not included anymore on this last day of the tour! (but you are welcome to fix yourselves a sandwich just before we’re leaving the farm to the airport in Akureyri!)