Maybe it would be best for both Jón Bjarnason and the whole country if he were to move to Grímsey, an uninhabited island in the West Fjords.
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The new Dreamliner, Boeing 787, landed at Keflavík International Airport yesterday morning for test flights in side wind. According to the airport’s information officer Fridthór Eydal, the airplane will be in Iceland for test flights for about a week.
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Click on the picture to watch an audio slideshow of a hike to Hraunsvatn lake in Öxnadalur valley in north Iceland, which lies at a height of 490 meters, interlocked between two steep mountains and a small glacier with a view of the majestic Hraundrangar peaks.
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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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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 2010 Eruptions 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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Dadi Gudbjörnsson's art with its smiley faces, Aladdin's lamps, gleaming hearts, blue mountains and psychedelic flora of unearthly origin reminds me of the cheesy R.E.M. song “Shiny Happy People”. The sugar-sweet naivety fails to amuse me but I must admit it infects my mood with delirious joy.
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Former President of Iceland Vigdís Finnbogadóttir turned 80 on 15 April this year and Mayor Hanna Birna Kristjánsdóttir—in making her an Honorary Citizen of Reykjavík to mark the occasion—observed that Finnbogadóttir’s life was interwoven with that of Reykjavík. In June 1980 Finnbogadóttir made history when she became the world’s first democratically elected female head of state.
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Today, August 30, and tomorrow is your last chance to visit the exhibition “Eau De Parfum” by Andrea Maack at the Spark Design Space in Reykjavík. In the exhibition space, Maack introduces three perfumes that are the result of her collaboration with French perfumery apf aromes & parfums.
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