Let’s pick some caraway seeds!

Dates
26, August 2014
Open from 7.30pm - 10.00pm

General Admission See on official website

Every year we gather on Viðey to pick caraway seeds that grow all around the island. The seeds are ready for picking in late August. The caraway seeds that grow on the island are sweater and have a more distinctive taste than the seeds you usually buy in the shops. It‘s especially good for baking but it‘s also delicious to put it in your coffee or in your cup of hot cacao.
Through the ages the caraway seeds have been used as an herbal medicine and it is believed to help with all kinds of disorders, such as stomach pain and respiratory diseases from sore throat to asthma. That might just be the reason why the taste of caraway seed is the distinctive taste of our national snaps Brennivín.

On Tuesday the 26th of August we‘ll meet on Viðey island at 19:30 and pick the seeds. We recommend that you bring along little bags, scissors or knifes. The ferry sails from Skarfabakki at Sundahöfn at 18:15 and 19: 15 and back at 22:00. The restaurant at Viðeyjarstofa will be open and it‘s a good idea to have a meal before the picking or a refreshment afterwards. Or maybe even both!

Adults pay 1.100 kr. for a round trip with the ferry, children 7–15 years old pay 550 kr. but the youngest sail for free. Everybody is welcome!

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