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As a kid I thought airports were the most romantic places in the world. Now, while other airports destroy my jet-setting romanticism, Keflavík aptly revives it.
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Click on the picture to observe how to prepare a traditional Icelandic meal of roe and liver (hrogn og lifur). At this time of year, egg pouches are harvested from female fish, mainly cod and haddock, and sold in fish stores around the country along with the liver. The egg pouches may not look appetizing; just remember that caviar is fish eggs too.
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Fjallabyggd (“Mountain Settlement”) is a skier’s dream. Its slopes are perfect for slaloming and there are also tracks for telemark skiing. Winter sporting enthusiasts can also go ice skating or rent snowmobiles. In summer, Fjallabyggd turns into a paradise for hikers. Read this special promotion about one of Iceland’s best hidden gems.
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After considerable delays and an unusually long election night, all ballots have finally been counted. The coalition parties, the Social Democratic Alliance and the Left-Green Movement, carried through with have a majority in parliament (34 MPs out of 63) and could remain in government.
Prime Minister Jóhanna Sigurdardóttir, the leader of the Social Democrats and the winner of yesterday's elections. Photo by Geir Ólafsson.
Their victory is historic as never before in Iceland's political history has a left-wing government earned a majority of seats in parliament.
However, their victory is not as decisive as the latest opinion polls had indicated since the Left-Greens ended up receiving fewer votes than the Independence Party. The Progressive Party was also surprisingly strong compared to the results of recent opinion polls.
The 2009 election with subsequent losses and gains are as follows:
The Social Democratic Alliance (S): 29.79 percent and 20 seats in parliament, earning two.
The Independence Party (D): 23.70 percent and 16 seats in parliament, losing nine. Support for the party has never been lower.
The Left-Green Movement (V): 21.68 percent and 14 seats in parliament, earning five.
The Progressive Party (B): 14.80 percent and nine seats in parliament, earning two.
The Civic Movement (O): 7.22 percent and four seats in parliament. This is a new party and had no previous seats in parliament.
The Liberal Party (F): 2.22 percent and no seats in parliament, losing all four of their seats.
The Democracy Party (P): 0.59 percent and no seats in parliament. This is also a new party.
These elections are also historic in the sense that 27 out of 63 MPs in parliament are women (i.e. 43 percent), which is a higher percentage than ever before. In total, 27 new MPs will have a seat in parliament after yesterday's elections, mbl.is reports.
Click here to watch a bar chart of the election results on ruv.is and here to read about what this means for Iceland and the EU.
Stay tuned for more detailed stories on the elections.
Click here to read this story in German.
Norwegian lawyer Morten Furuholmen is preparing a lawsuit against Icelandic authorities for what he calls an unfounded arrest of Leif Ivar Kristiansen, the leader of the Hells Angels motorcycle club in Norway, at Keflavík International Airport yesterday.
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The government of Iceland and the opposition in Iceland’s parliament reached an agreement yesterday on a discussion point to use in renegotiations with British and Dutch authorities on the Icesave obligations.
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Icelandair has submitted a request to the Ministries of Justice and Industry that operating casinos be legalized in Iceland. The company is interested in opening a casino at the Hilton Hotel Nordica on Sudurlandsbraut in Reykjavík.
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Icelandic stamp collector Magni R. Magnússon recently found a rare stamp sheet from Liberia portraying President of Iceland Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson in a collector’s store in Belgium. Liberian post authorities issued stamps with almost 200 world leaders in 2000.
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New subscribers to the quarterly Iceland Review magazine will receive the photography book Puffins, which contains a wealth of information about this colorful bird, as a gift. Additionally, all subscribers will enter a draw to win a trip to Iceland. Click here to subscribe to Iceland Review. The new issue will be out next week!
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When I first heard of the photographic book Legend by Fiann Paul, portraying people dressed in Viking-style in Icelandic landscapes, I imagined it would depict scenes from Norse mythology. However, the idea with the book is to tell a story of how “The Seeker” finds “The Legend” and it feels like a wishy-washy self-help book.
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Fresh back from Brazil, where she was one of 28 international judges at the ‘Cup of Excellence’ awards, Kaffitár founder and owner Adalheidur Hédinsdóttir sat down with Atlantica’s Mica Allan in Kaffitár’s Bankastraeti cafe to talk about her passion and delight: coffee.
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“Lucy” is a video and music installation by Dodda Maggý (1981), the 15th artist to exhibit in Reykjavík Art Museum’s D-gallery project in the Hafnarhús exhibition hall. In “Lucy” the artist explores the idea of the “acousmetre,” a film character portrayed only by voice, never in body, omniscient and ubiquitous.
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