Brekkulćkur Team
regarding our Icelandic guides, among other qualities we value their professionalism and experience as well as their proficiency in English and German. And all of them are eager to show you Their Iceland. In addition up to four members of staff of different nationalities work at our guesthouse during the summer.
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Arinbjörn Jóhannsson called Abbi was born and brought up in Brekkulćkur. After studying ethnology in Germany for some time, he decided to devote his career to tourism. He started his first riding-tour in 1979 and never ran out of ideas since then. He is a "self-made man" who can do anything from fitting horse-shoes to organizing ornithological observation excursions. Nowadays he is mainly leading riding-tours through the Northwest of Iceland, supported by his 70 diligent horses. |
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Eggert Pálsson our neighbour from the horse-farm Bjargsholl is a breeder of sheep and horses and has worked with us for many years. Together with Herdís Brynjólfsdóttir and his own horses he makes and excellent team. He is famous for his charm and knowledge of horses. |
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Herdís Brynjólfsdóttir grew up on a farm and has always been enthusiastic about horses. She is a teacher and during the summer she helps Eggert with the riding-tours, where her educational abilities often come into play favourably. No matter what the problem is, she solves it with sovereignty and a smile. |
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Sigrún Valbergsdóttir is a multi-talented woman. She studied in Germany, is a stage manager at the theatre, works for Icelandic radio and teaches at the Icelandic Tourist Institute. However, she does spend every summer in the countryside and has worked with us as a guide, cook and consultant from the beginning. |
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Dr. Jón Hálfdanarson is a physician and holds a chair at the university of Reykjavik after working in Iceland's industry for many years. He also studied in Germany. He is a great lover of nature and an experienced hiker. This summer he is again leading some of our hiking groups through the beautiful highland area Arnavatnsheidi. |
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Björn Sindri Arinbjarnarson grew up bilingual at Brekkulaekur – he is a true child of nature, hiker and enthusiastic fisherman. He finds it easy to inspire his groups for Iceland's nature. He is living in Reykjavik, is a landscape gardener and lately also works at a tattoo-studio where he can make use of his artistic skills. |
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Árni Þorlákur Guðnason was brought up at a parsonage near Brekkulaekur and works as a teacher at a primary school in Reykjavik. He knows every stone and hill in Arnavatnsheidi by name. His groups sometimes suffer from lack of sleep since he likes to unpack his card game at night and when he does, no one goes to bed early. |
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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. |
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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. |
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Katharina Ruppel originally comes from Germany and has lived in Iceland for many years. She knows all aspects of our business because she has our book-keeping under strict control, occasionally works as a driver and successfully completed her studies at the Tourist Institute in 2010. Therefore she now also works as a guide for us. |
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Jóhann Frímann Arinbjarnarson our junior guide, very busy pupil with manifold interests, assists during his holidays whenever a language talent or a clever fisherman is needed. He impresses with astonishing stories about Iceland. |
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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. Because of his wood craft he also accompanied Arinbjörn to tourism-fairs in Germany during the past years. |
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Rannveig Einarsdóttir |
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Páll Guðjónsson young and dynamic! We were lucky when Pall joined our team in 2009. 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. A knocking motor or the danger of a boring evening – Páll will find a solution. |
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Susanne Möckel |
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Astrid Schumm |
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Trausti Björnsson ”Traust” is icelandic for “trust” and describes Trausti very well. Already retired he spends a lot of time on cars and is absolutely experienced in driving on the graveled roads in Iceland. |
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Smári 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. |
