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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A young man armed with a knife threatened the clerk of Sunnubúd, a small family-run store in the Hlídar neighborhood in Reykjavík, on Sunday, demanding money from the cash register. The thief got away with the money and police are looking for him.
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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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Nearly 2,000 people marched from Hlemmur bus terminal to Austurvöllur parliamentary square in downtown Reykjavík on Saturday to protest against the economic situation in Iceland. Four trucks led the progression, honking their horns.
Last Saturday’s demonstration was the third since the collapse of Iceland’s banking system, Fréttabladid reports.
Musician Hördur Torfason and television presenter Kolfinna Baldvinsdóttir are the people behind the series of protests, demanding that Iceland’s government and the board of the Central Bank step down.
“We will not stop until the message is delivered,” Baldvinsdóttir said, arguing that the nation neither trusts the government nor the board of the Central Bank anymore and wants someone else to take the reigns.
Members of the public held speeches outside the Althingi parliament on Austurvöllur, preschool teacher Óskar Ástthórsson, truck driver Sturla Jónsson, physiologist Pétur Tyrfingsson and practical nurse Lárus Páll Birgisson.
The organizers of the protests, Torfason and Baldvinsdóttir, seem to have agreed on when and how they should take place last Saturday. The weekend before, they had held separate protests and then criticized each other in public.
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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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