Walking along Akureyri's harbour is to feel what it's like to skirt around the edge of the earth.
There are only a few miles between me and the most extreme north of this planet - in the distance, I could see the fjord opening up into the vast expanse of the Arctic.
This isn't the typical host town of a sporting event.
However, the Akureyri Open - the reason I found myself in the far north of Iceland on a spring morning that felt more like summer - isn't a normal sporting event.
John McDonald and Russ Bray had ventured to the frozen north - and it was their presence that had prompted me to hop on a flight from London Gatwick to the small Icelandic town.
Darts, for me, has always felt like an English sport - one played in boozers up and down the country. That's reflected in the upper echelons of the sport - only one Premier League player doesn't come from these shores.
And yet, from the moment I walked into the Sjallinn, which had been rebranded as the Sjally Pally, it became clear that passion is just as feverish as it is here.
I spoke with organisers and players, all proud to show off their small corner of the world; all eager to showcase the sport and its far reaches.
Hundreds had entered the competiton and through a series of group stage games, they had been whittled down to the final eight on the Saturday night.
At the Paddy Power PDC World Darts Championship over the winter there were representatives from all four corners of the globe - and for the past two years, Iceland has fielded a team in the World Cup of Darts.
Who says an Icelander won't graced the famous stage soon too, from what I saw, almost nobody.
The passion for the sport is there, and so too is the talent. Matthías Örn Friðriksson and Alexander Veigar duked it out in the final with averages that wouldn't look out of place in the Euro Tour.
Matthías, who lost in the final, has almost single handedly spearheaded the sport here - before his quarter-final match he could be seen fixing the lights on the stage.
And as the crowd heard Bray's iconic call, from a Matthías maximum, they erupted with noise. However, that's not to say they had been quiet at all - there had been chants throughout the night. Quite a few in English, convenient for me.
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There was a moment just before the final that stuck with me, before announcing the final two, McDonald looked around in amazement. He'd admitted to me beforehand he'd never been to Iceland and didn't know what to expect.
And in that moment, he had discovered the same thing that I had a couple of hours beforehand.
You can be anywhere, even this town on the edge of the world, but darts is still darts.
That's what perhaps what I was asked the most by the locals - all eager to learn how it compared to events back home. I told them all I was amazed, it was like some of the top events in the UK.
And that became clear a couple of days after I had landed back home.
I was in Manchester for Premier League darts and of course, the occasion is bigger - but were those in attendance all as passionate as the hundreds that crowded into that nightclub?
Absolutely not.
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