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Click on the picture to watch this audio slideshow about bird watching at Óshólmar, an area at the mouth of Eyjafjardará river just outside Akureyri in north Iceland, the largest Icelandic town outside the capital region. Not many tourists know about this attraction, which is perfect for a walk in the sun.
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Located just 40 minutes by car and six minutes from Keflavík International Airport, Sandgerdi (“Sandy Hedge”) is a growing town of 1,700 with a storied history and loads to see. Read this special promotion about the hidden secrets of one of Iceland's most charming seaside villages.
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In response to imminent unemployment among students next summer, some high school students developed an online social network, frumkvaedi.is, where people can pitch innovative ideas. Minister of Education Katrín Jakobsdóttir formally launched the website on Monday.
“This shows how we should think when times are difficult,” Jakobsdóttir said at the opening ceremony, which was held at the “House of Ideas” at Grandi in Reykjavík, Fréttabladid reports.
“We wanted to create a platform where everyone could get together and do something clever,” said one of the project’s initiators, Hreidar Már Árnason.
At the website, companies, associations and individuals can pitch ideas on potentially beneficial projects and on housing that can be used for working on these projects, as Sindri Snaer Einarsson, the website’s other initiator, explained.
Although the social network is open to everyone, it is especially aimed at young people since up to 30,000 high school students might end up without a summer job due to the current economic situation. That is also what sparked the idea.
Gudjón Már Gudjónsson of the “Ministry of Ideas” assisted Árnason and Einarsson on setting up the social network. He said the website is a good solution since the problem is not tied to a specific area; high school students all over the country are facing unemployment.
Gudjónsson added that the website can also be used by starter companies that would like to get in touch with young and eager people and that they could perhaps offer students internships, which is common abroad but not in Iceland.
Click here to read more about the "Ministry of Ideas."
A skeleton from a person who suffered from the Paget’s disease of bone was unearthed this week during an archeological excavation project at Skriduklaustur in east Iceland, where a monastery was once operated.
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The human being will be on display for the first time in its natural environment in the Reykjavík Family Park and Zoo next weekend. Visitors can observe three men and one woman in a cage after 10 am on Saturday and Sunday.
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The formal Videy island swim took place yesterday and there were three participants, two men and one woman, Thórdís Hrönn Pálsdóttir, who is the first woman to participate in the Videy swim since 1959.
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The Environment Agency intends to investigate whether the Heath Protection Authority handled the situation in Eskifjördur, east Iceland, in the correct manner when contaminated water from a trawler was carried into the town’s drinking water system.
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The second issue of the print edition of Iceland Review 2010 has just been published. Entitled “Under the Volcano” the magazine dedicates 20 pages, words and pictures, to the volcanic eruption in Eyjafjallajökull glacier which made headlines all over the word. New subscribers will receive the book Puffins as a gift and all subscribers are part of a draw to win a trip to Iceland. Click here to subscribe to the magazine.
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REVIEWS
Hendrikka Waage is an accomplished jewellery designer whose first children’s book Rikka and Her Magic Ring in Iceland, takes readers on an enchanted and educational journey through the country. It’s beautifully illustrated and a good lesson in geography, but the plot could have been better thought through and the moral of the story is a bit too prominent.
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On the third day of the Eyjafjallajökull eruption we drove from Skógar to Hvolsvöllur in total darkness, a distance of 18 kilometers. It was frightening, the darkness being so impenetrable that we could hardly see out the windows of the car. We could see faint lights from the farm standing right next to the highway.
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Ásmundur Sveinsson is among the foremost Icelandic sculptors. The current exhibition in the Ásmundur Sveinsson Museum in Reykjavík is entitled “I choose women who thrive…” and features women as symbols in the sculptor’s art. The works in the exhibition are selected from his entire career.
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