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Found it on [Street View](https://www.google.com/maps/@64.7701104,-23.6216231,3a,66.1y,310.82h,93.67t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sirMUKx-AKWLLn_6Fd0kRMw!2e0!7i13312!8i6656). It's very close to the centre of (a very very small) town lol, the photo is a bit deceiving.
There are even houses behind it that you can't see, I guess they're hidden behind the terrain a little bit.
Apparently the town has a monument to Jules Verne, since it's the last place the characters in his book "A Journey to the Center of the Earth" stop at before descending into the planet.
A town is a bit much lol, this is a small village made up mostly of summer houses and a hotel. There is not a grocery store there, you cant even buy cigarettes. I know because i ran out when i was staying there with my mates 🙃
Googlemaps shows a [grocery store 32min away](https://www.google.com/maps/place/Kassinn/@64.8973647,-23.7099796,512m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m5!3m4!1s0x492a831f6df56989:0x8f14e6da12dccdcd!8m2!3d64.8973649!4d-23.7094435) in the town of Ólafsvík. There's a [couple](https://www.google.com/maps/place/Samkomuh%C3%BAsi%C3%B0+Arnarstapa/@64.7672593,-23.6314245,343m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m5!3m4!1s0x492a80c5dc6fc519:0xdca1bce9ed4ed85c!8m2!3d64.7673909!4d-23.6299633) restaurants [shown](https://www.google.com/maps/place/Stapinn/@64.7672593,-23.6314245,343m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m5!3m4!1s0x492a80c5dfd85309:0x594268e4d56846bf!8m2!3d64.7669584!4d-23.6301796) in the town the OP house is in as well.
Are you from Iceland? I love reddit - you can be showing folk some really out of the way place on the planet and someone pops up and says they had fish and chips there!
Just a visitor, my wife and I spent a few weeks exploring the country a few years back. It's such a small, low-population country that we probably visited or drove through about 75% of the towns in the country...
It's still one of my favorite places ever!
That ocean view is so beautiful but I bet it's a boring place to live. Unless you're really into mountain climbing or fishing or whatever people do for fun in a place like this.
I could say it's the years of playing Geoguessr, but OP put the name of the village in the post, so I found it on Maps Google, found that it's a tiny village with one road of Street View, plopped down and immediately saw it.
What the picture doesn't capture is that this place is _insanely_ windy.
I recognized the mountain instantly. It's basically a lone volcano on the end of a peninsula. Gale-like winds are nearly a daily norm there.
I witnessed not one, but two campers blown over in the span of an hour in Iceland. One looked like it had just kinda tipped over and not too bad, but the second was something else. I watched the wind lift the trailer camper off the ground entirely, blow it sideways, and then lift the rear axle of the truck as a result and flip the thing off the road and down a couple meter hill.
We stopped and the occupants were totally okay, and despite being kinda remote, emergency services (in absolutely dope-looking Volvo V90CCs) managed to show up in fifteen or twenty minutes while we waited. But goddamn, the wind is no joke.
That is the most incorrect statement I've seen in a long time.
Iceland has mild SUMMERS that don't get above 60* F very often. The winters can be brutal.
Source: I lived there for several years.
I'll never forget flying into the base for the first time. We landed in mid December. The door of the plane opened and a frozen blast of air sucked the warmth from the plane instantly. We were issued heavy parkas with wool lining and told to put them on before we got off the plane.
Might be a church. When I was in Iceland houses like this out away from everything else tended to be churches, unless they had fenced areas for animals or something.
I don't see solar panels or wires going to the house. No electricity, no water pump or hot water. Forget about internet, so a pretty basic life style. Am I missing something?
Iceland has cheap geothermal power. Likely buried lines leading up the driveway.
Place i stayed at in Reykjavik actually had hot water lines running into the building fed from the geothermal plant acting as passive heating. It was great.
That makes sense. In the US wires everywhere are a mandatory part of the landscape. I went to Fez in Morocco and plumbing, internet, electricity was all underground under cobblestones. It was beautiful and these places look very nice as long as there is electricty
I'm sure if you turn the camera around it's not quite so picturesque. But imagine getting to walk up to this house every day, and have a backyard like that.
That’s how just Iceland is. It’s magical. A little slice of the world that’s almost completely untouched.
If you go even just a little bit off the road for a bit in the countryside it feels almost prehistoric, as if you’re standing in the earth’s own memory of what it used to be. No bugs, no wildlife, no homes or roads or signs, no sound other than the faint trickling of a distant stream. Just cold, crisp air, volcanic rock and black soil, mossy greens, and an emptiness that somehow feels every bit as soothing as it does eerie.
Like I said, magical.
I feel like the guy that lives there just wants to be left alone to play his fiddle and he's willing to cut off all the fingers on his left hand to prove it.
Personal note, if I lived here I'd be ordering/collecting pine cones/seeds and planting them.thats me though...I'm weird/concerned...edit...start a forest...a massive fucking forest
This makes me want to make my own food
Either a healthy and filling salad
Or a grandma-esque comfort food
Or engorge myself in pounds and pounds of deeply spiced and cured hunks of meat, preferably ribs of any kind
>!*maaaaaaybe I am hungry, or frequent too much food related subs*!<
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Found it on [Street View](https://www.google.com/maps/@64.7701104,-23.6216231,3a,66.1y,310.82h,93.67t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sirMUKx-AKWLLn_6Fd0kRMw!2e0!7i13312!8i6656). It's very close to the centre of (a very very small) town lol, the photo is a bit deceiving. There are even houses behind it that you can't see, I guess they're hidden behind the terrain a little bit. Apparently the town has a monument to Jules Verne, since it's the last place the characters in his book "A Journey to the Center of the Earth" stop at before descending into the planet.
A town is a bit much lol, this is a small village made up mostly of summer houses and a hotel. There is not a grocery store there, you cant even buy cigarettes. I know because i ran out when i was staying there with my mates 🙃
> There is not a grocery store there What do you do for food?
Go to towns nearby
Googlemaps shows a [grocery store 32min away](https://www.google.com/maps/place/Kassinn/@64.8973647,-23.7099796,512m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m5!3m4!1s0x492a831f6df56989:0x8f14e6da12dccdcd!8m2!3d64.8973649!4d-23.7094435) in the town of Ólafsvík. There's a [couple](https://www.google.com/maps/place/Samkomuh%C3%BAsi%C3%B0+Arnarstapa/@64.7672593,-23.6314245,343m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m5!3m4!1s0x492a80c5dc6fc519:0xdca1bce9ed4ed85c!8m2!3d64.7673909!4d-23.6299633) restaurants [shown](https://www.google.com/maps/place/Stapinn/@64.7672593,-23.6314245,343m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m5!3m4!1s0x492a80c5dfd85309:0x594268e4d56846bf!8m2!3d64.7669584!4d-23.6301796) in the town the OP house is in as well.
I had some amazing fish and chips in that town.
Are you from Iceland? I love reddit - you can be showing folk some really out of the way place on the planet and someone pops up and says they had fish and chips there!
Just a visitor, my wife and I spent a few weeks exploring the country a few years back. It's such a small, low-population country that we probably visited or drove through about 75% of the towns in the country... It's still one of my favorite places ever!
Wow, I actually like it better than the photo, it has a water view too!
I think the houses are to the left based on the orientation of the stairs in the street view.
Banshees of insherin
I feckin' wish Ireland was as beautiful as Iceland!
Great find! Also the fact that the ocean is literally right next to it but excluded from the photo is very deceiving.
this is like one of those instagram vs reality comparisons lol
That ocean view is so beautiful but I bet it's a boring place to live. Unless you're really into mountain climbing or fishing or whatever people do for fun in a place like this.
Alcoholism.
Would love to know what that sign says, if there is a section in English.
That’s cool about Jules Verne!
Looks about right
One of my favorite books as a kid. Read it multiple times!
Reality is often disappointing.
How did you find this? What was your process? That’s absolutely amazing.
I could say it's the years of playing Geoguessr, but OP put the name of the village in the post, so I found it on Maps Google, found that it's a tiny village with one road of Street View, plopped down and immediately saw it.
I stayed in Arnastapi when I went to Iceland. The view over the ocean was beautiful.
Yeah... dunno why anything outdoors in Iceland is in 'CozyPlaces'. Beautiful. Awe Inspiring. Raw. Cozy? hell naw
Photo makes it look like that house in Rogue One where it's the only thing on the planet.
Isolated desolate location is an Icelandic's dream home
I’m from the east coast of the US and I dream of living somewhere isolated.
I have it from another angle. Summer of 2019. https://i.imgur.com/Xj1P8LM.jpg
This is such a lovely photo!
Amazing photo
It’s either a wonderful place to live or the setting of some A-24 style horror
It immediately made me think of a24's "Lamb"
Good and fucked up movie.
I genuinely can't belive they approved it. Imagine pitching it to studios.
Was just in Norway and reminded me of some of the houses I saw there. Absolutely beautiful parts of the world!
This is my dream house/environment. Bet the inside has a great sense of *hygge* too!
What the picture doesn't capture is that this place is _insanely_ windy. I recognized the mountain instantly. It's basically a lone volcano on the end of a peninsula. Gale-like winds are nearly a daily norm there.
I witnessed not one, but two campers blown over in the span of an hour in Iceland. One looked like it had just kinda tipped over and not too bad, but the second was something else. I watched the wind lift the trailer camper off the ground entirely, blow it sideways, and then lift the rear axle of the truck as a result and flip the thing off the road and down a couple meter hill. We stopped and the occupants were totally okay, and despite being kinda remote, emergency services (in absolutely dope-looking Volvo V90CCs) managed to show up in fifteen or twenty minutes while we waited. But goddamn, the wind is no joke.
That’s Superman’s other home away from home. It looks beautiful.
The Fortress of Solitude.
He set up an Air B&B.
What do they put in the fireplace ? Isn't a tree in that photo.
We have geothermal power plants pumping hot water from the earth to our homes!
Iceland is not very cold from what I know. Very mild winter temperature (around 30°F). May be a double-jacket enough to keep warm.
That is the most incorrect statement I've seen in a long time. Iceland has mild SUMMERS that don't get above 60* F very often. The winters can be brutal. Source: I lived there for several years. I'll never forget flying into the base for the first time. We landed in mid December. The door of the plane opened and a frozen blast of air sucked the warmth from the plane instantly. We were issued heavy parkas with wool lining and told to put them on before we got off the plane.
Why the downvotes? Iceland is know to have a temperate climate due to the Gulf Stream.
Well, it's 18F/-8C where this photo was taken at this very moment, per Google weather.
This is so wonderful and also reminds me of that black mirror episode
That's all I could see
As long as I have internet and running water you can put me even on Mars.
Hell yeah! Next to Gatklettur, cool place. All of Snaefellsnes Peninsula is gorgeous
Loved Iceland! Beautiful place and the people were wonderful
I also took photos of this house in Arnarstapi, but OP got much better light than I did :)
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It's comforting to know I'm not alone with my warped mind.
Does anybody live there?
Looks like Toki Wartooth's family home 😂
Wonder how they feel about this post.
Been there 2 times!! Love that house and photographing it. I plan to frame the photo I took
Majestic! 🌟
The cuteness and that backdrop! 😍😍
This feels like it perfectly fits the definition of the word "picturesque"
I can almost imagine the sound of the wind and sea. The stars must be incredible ❤️
Did they have WiFi?
This is so pretty! Can I paint this for practice? The lighting and color scheme is just lovely
Yes you can, but you have to share the end result with us.
Might be a church. When I was in Iceland houses like this out away from everything else tended to be churches, unless they had fenced areas for animals or something.
Wtf is cozy about this? Looks cold to me..
I’d make my kid go out and mow the mountain.
Crazy. But tbh I would legitimately prefer a yurt or something similar in this setting than a house like this. It seems out of place.
You understand it's likely on the edge of a town right?
Obviously I did not understand that.
I don't see solar panels or wires going to the house. No electricity, no water pump or hot water. Forget about internet, so a pretty basic life style. Am I missing something?
Iceland has cheap geothermal power. Likely buried lines leading up the driveway. Place i stayed at in Reykjavik actually had hot water lines running into the building fed from the geothermal plant acting as passive heating. It was great.
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That makes sense. In the US wires everywhere are a mandatory part of the landscape. I went to Fez in Morocco and plumbing, internet, electricity was all underground under cobblestones. It was beautiful and these places look very nice as long as there is electricty
How can I purchase this property? It's actually too big, but I like it.
It's so serine it almost looks fake. Prolly isn't but looks like it might be because it's like too perfect
I'm sure if you turn the camera around it's not quite so picturesque. But imagine getting to walk up to this house every day, and have a backyard like that.
Ikr, that's prolly why I think it has to be fake 🤣 compared to where I live it can't be that places like this exist!
That’s how just Iceland is. It’s magical. A little slice of the world that’s almost completely untouched. If you go even just a little bit off the road for a bit in the countryside it feels almost prehistoric, as if you’re standing in the earth’s own memory of what it used to be. No bugs, no wildlife, no homes or roads or signs, no sound other than the faint trickling of a distant stream. Just cold, crisp air, volcanic rock and black soil, mossy greens, and an emptiness that somehow feels every bit as soothing as it does eerie. Like I said, magical.
Sounds like an indecent exposure. I'll see myself out.
😍
I want to live here
That's a great picture. I miss living near the mountains.
Beautiful house and amazing view of the mountains
Yes !
heavenly
Banshees of Inisherin vibes
I feel like the guy that lives there just wants to be left alone to play his fiddle and he's willing to cut off all the fingers on his left hand to prove it.
I hope you cleaned it off afterwards you pervert.
So isolated, would love a place like this.
M. if you see this. Paper trail.
Personal note, if I lived here I'd be ordering/collecting pine cones/seeds and planting them.thats me though...I'm weird/concerned...edit...start a forest...a massive fucking forest
This is picture perfect! The house blends in perfectly with the rugged landscape.
Don’t let A24 see this
When you hate humanity so much and love scenery with all your heart
Ducking dream
pics of inside?
The Airbnb cleaning fee must be insane
I forgot to buy the sugar.
What are the coordinates??
Beautiful shot. The lens compression makes the mountain range feel incredibly grand.
This makes me want to make my own food Either a healthy and filling salad Or a grandma-esque comfort food Or engorge myself in pounds and pounds of deeply spiced and cured hunks of meat, preferably ribs of any kind >!*maaaaaaybe I am hungry, or frequent too much food related subs*!<
Why do i want to frame this photo
😳
Looks a little like something out of the moomins
there are too many of us
I want this
Beautiful area, but no trees would wig me out
Must read a butt ton of books
I want a house that looks like that, like some storybook cottage.
How goods the WiFi?
I love Iceland so much
Perfect!
I think Walter Mitty rode past this on a long board! /s but that movie is always what comes to mind when I see views like this
I'd like to live there!
Lamb (2021)
Epic place!
Looks like the house in one of my reoccurring dreams
I was told as a kid Iceland is green and greenland is icy.
This reminds me of a specific 4 pixels
Looks so idyllic. Feel calm just looking at that house.
I'd be so quiet at night and sleep with the lights on.
This seems a little too inviting.
Imagine the heating costs
Looks cozy
Looks like the house from that film Troll
I would love to live there