A brief note for this holiday season:

If you keep on cycling even when it’s cold outside, that’s great. We wish you joy on your ride and that blissful happy-tired afterglow that comes as a result of hard work. But we think that the end of December is perfect time to stop pedaling, for a couple of days at least.

Now is the best time to get together with your friends for a cup of fragrant coffee. Organise with your family a tasty home dinner and enjoy the smell of mandarins and the glow of fairy lights.

Regardless of what you do, remember to stay in the moment.

Happy holiday, see you next year ready to hit the roads!

Here are four places that made us park the bikes this year and just enjoy the moment:

1. Café near Etna

2. Soup kitchen somewhere in West Iceland

3. Sipping coffee in The Settlement Center in Borgarnes, Iceland

4. And finally, enjoying burgers in the only gas station around the Hvaljfordur, Iceland