Brekkulækur Team

regarding our Icelandic guides, among other qualities we value their professionalism and experience as well as their proficiency in English, German and Icelandic. And all of them are eager to show you „their“ Iceland. In addition to our guides up to four members of staff of different nationalities work at our guesthouse during the summer.

Arinbjörn Jóhannsson

called „Abbi“, was born and brought up in Brekkulækur. After studying ethnology in Germany for some time, he decided to devote his career to tourism. He started his first riding-tour for guests in 1979. He never ran out of ideas since then and has greatly expanded the company. He is the boss and therefore spends a lot of time in the office, but he prefers leading the ornithological tour, repairing fences or feeding his horses in winter.

Claudia Hofmann

moved from Germany to Iceland in 2001 and has never looked back. Most of all she likes being outdoors and enjoys Icelandic nature and riding horses whenever her time allows. Her jobs include work at the office, guesthouse, stables, kitchen and as a mother. Together with Arinbjörn she lives and works at Brekkulaekur all year round.

Pálina Arinbjarnadóttir

Growing up at Brekkulækur, she is guiding the horseback riding tours some hiking tours and is familiar with everything in the guest house. She knows everything about the birds in Iceland. She has been riding since she could walk. Driving and keeping the herd of horses running free is her specialty.

Sigrún Valbergsdóttir

is a multi-talented woman. She studied in Germany, is a stage manager at the theatre, works for Icelandic radio and was a teacher at the Icelandic tour guide school for many years. She vowed to spend plenty of time in nature every summer to compensate. From the very beginning until today she has supported us as a guide, advisor and so much more.

Maríus Þór Jónasson

works as a construction architect but ever since his student days he is guiding some of our hiking-groups and he will do so again next year. He speaks four languages fluently and is a great cook. Moreover no fish will ever escape him.

Astrid Michel

She was a former riding guest and in 2006 she spent a whole summer with us. No matter what it was, chores in the guesthouse, helping in the kitchen, baby-sitting or horses, she was great at everything and since then she has been visiting and helping us every year during round up and we always look forward to her visiting us. Since she has been a veterinarian and farmer she has enough to do at home in Switzerland.

Helgi Björnsson

our good neighbour – day or night, come rain or shine, if worst comes to worst, if anything needs repairing or something has to be built, Helgi is there. And he delights our guests with his wood craft and philosophical abilties.

Björn Sindri Arinbjarnarson

grew up bilingual at Brekkulaekur – he is a true child of nature, hiker and enthusiastic fisherman. He is an important man in the background who brings supplies to the highlands. He is living in Hveragerði, is a landscape gardener and lately also works at a tattoo-studio where he can make use of his artistic skills and is very successful. He is also a very committed family man.

Páll Guðjónsson

He is an electrician by trade, also works as a bus driver and lives in Reykjavik. He did the Brekkulaekur-airport –transfer countless times and also drives the mini-bus with our guests through the West of Iceland. 2017 he guided a hiking tour for the first time and we are happy that he will do so again this year!

Martina Klocke

Is our most important conection to Germany. She is talented in many ways: photographer, fair hostess, a multiplicator in many ways – there is nothing she could not do – next to her job, family and her horses, of course. In summer 2024 she fulfilled her heart’s desire to spend a longer period of time here with us and at the same time she brought our office into shape. Thank Thank you!

Brigitte Visbeck

after a one year stay on an icelandic farm, followed by countless more, during which she got to know many differnet aspects of life in Iceland, Brigitte finally decided to move to here. She studied geographics and enjoys the beautiful icelandic nature most of all. Her knowledge of Iceland and its people is almost boundless and she is eager to share it with our guests during the many tours she will guide for us next season!

Helga Medek

Grew up multiculturally as the daughter of an Icelandic mother and an Austrian father. She works as a doctor in the largest hospital in Iceland. Since 2021 she has been a state-certified hiking and travel guide. For her, there is nothing better than being out with a group in the highlands of Iceland and forgetting the everyday stress.

Valdimar Eggertssom

Is at home on peninsula Vatnsnes, he is a farmer, car mechanic, a real all-rounder and works hard to keep our fleet running.

Ingi Hjörtur Bjarnason

is our accountant after graduating from high school he worked in the bank until he took over his parents‘ farm. He has a German wife, 4 children and sings in a choir – his interest is in music.

Hjalti Jósefsson

he has been supporting us for years as a driver on short distances and picking up our guests from our trekking tour. As a farmer, he also owns horses and sheep and we also have 2 horses from one of his stallions.

Dalia

is mentioned here as representative for all the horses from Brekkulaekur. Most of our horses grew up on our farm, some were bought. Foals and young horses spend the summer running free in the highland, their varied training starts in a slow way when they are about four years old. They are fit right up until old age. During the riding tours in summer, they easily cover a distance of several hundred miles. They live in herds on the spacious grassland around Brekkulaekur. In winter the horses in training are stabled. Icelandic horses are known to be diligent, hard-running and sure-footed and of course they all have different characters and temperaments, so every rider will get a matching horse.

Leo and Þúla

Our dogs Leo and Þúla are the most important employees, they work hard and help to drive the herd of horses, they also welcome our guests in the guest house when they have time and hope for cuddles or activity games.