Hello and a warm welcome to our site or even better - in person to Gaulverjaskóli - The Old School House.
Our names are Magnea and Greg. Magnea was born and raised in Reykjavík and Greg is from the south coast of England.
We met in London in 1987 and have been together ever since!!
We have lived in London most of the time and raised a couple of awesome kids.
Since 2017 we have been working our full time jobs in London and running The Old School house alongside it with help from many different people/family and friends. We closed the business as a hostel early on and only took bookings from groups hiring the whole house - this was easier to manage from the UK.
But every vacation and spare time we have had, has been spent improving the place to get it nearer to our vision for it.
We as a family have built, painted and planted something every single vacation we have had here. It is an absolute labour of love.
In 2018 we had the atrium built and in 2021 we laid the courtyard outside and installed the hot-tub.
The exciting news is that we recently left our jobs in London, the kids have kind of left home and at the time of writing (Feb 2024) we are travelling in India and Sri Lanka for two months. Staying in other people's guesthouses, learning yoga and doing the blue sky thinking for the future.
Getting ourselves ready to be spending bigger chunks of our time in Iceland running our business!
Now, this allows us to open the rooms to be booked in between the group bookings.