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Reykjavík Mayor Jón Gnarr has accepted a challenge from the founder of the World Testicle Cooking Championship, Ljubomir Erovic, to take part in the tenth annual competition in Serbia on August 31.
Jón Gnarr (not pictured) is set to take part in the World Testicle Cooking Competition. Photo: Páll Stefánsson.
Icelanders are known for eating and enjoying pickled ram testicles. The delicacy is a favorite during the month of Þorri (from late January to late February this year).
The World Testicle Cooking Championship, held annually in the Gornji Milanovac region of Serbia, is the largest competition of its sort in the world. Testicles are reportedly considered to be an aphrodisiac and a natural alternative to Viagra in Serbia and other countries.
To date, the festival has seen dishes made from 16 different animals, including stallion, bull, ostrich, boar (hog), donkey, kangaroo, rabbit, deer, shark, ram, and swan.
Ruv.is reports that President of the Jury at the World Testicle Cooking Championship Anna Wexler has visited Iceland.
More information about this year’s competition is available here.
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Four Icelandic contestants will participate in this year’s World Skills International, the world cup for industrial- and vocational subjects. The competition is held every other year.
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This year’s free English-language travel guide Around Iceland has been released, the 38th year in a row. The guide is also published in Icelandic and German and is distributed in 100,000 copies to the country’s most frequented tourist destinations.
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An international group of divers recently traveled to Þingvellir National Park in Southwest Iceland to explore this unique diving destination. A Polish guide, Michail Zinieuricz, who works for the DIVE.is, led the team of North Americans and a French couple.
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Iceland’s northernmost island is no longer one island. In a recent surveillance excursion to the Kolbeinsey, the Icelandic Coast Guard discovered that the island is now divided in two.
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The 2013 June-July issue of Iceland Review is out. Themed ‘We Are Young’ the magazine celebrates the arrival of summer by interviewing young energetic Icelanders who excel in art, sports, business and politics—and Sigmundur Davíð Gunnlaugsson, the youngest PM in the republic’s history and the world’s youngest ruling state leader. Click here to take a look at a selection of the current issue and here to subscribe to the magazine.
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The road to Höfn, a 1,690-person harbor town by the fjord Hornafjörður, is lined with reindeer. Whole herds of the wild horned animals rest peacefully on withered pastures, grace next to sheep and horses and bounce along the road. Soon, Vatnajökull, Europe’s largest glacier and the region’s biggest attraction, comes into view. Looming over Höfn, its outlet glaciers flow down from the mountains on which the bright white icecap rests.
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Sin Fang will celebrate the release of his third album with a release concert in Iðnó on June 12. Flowers was released in February by Morr Music and has been well received by music enthusiasts and critics alike. The concert will be supported by Vök, this year’s winners of the Icelandic Music Experiments.
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