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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Almost 500 protestors assembled outside the police station on Hverfisgata in Reykjavík on Saturday, following the organized demonstrations on Austurvöllur parliamentary square, to demand that their fellow demonstrator, who had been arrested the previous day, be set free.
Some protestors broke into the police station to free their companion. Police resorted to pepper spray to keep the situation under control, Fréttabladid reports.
The demonstrator in question, Haukur Hilmarsson, had two weeks earlier raised a flag with the emblem of supermarket chain Bónus on the roof of the Althingi parliamentary building. He was set free around 6 pm on Saturday.
“I didn’t want people to get hurt by rescuing some punk. I’d rather they use this energy to bring the government to their knees,” Hilmarsson said. “Launch a complete and general and immediate revolution.”
Hilmarsson was arrested on Friday night because of a fine he had failed to pay. Hilmarsson was fined for participating in demonstrations outside the aluminum smelter in Reydarfjördur, east Iceland, in 2006.
Stefán Eiríksson, chief of the Capital Region Police, denied that Hilmarsson’s arrest had anything to do with the organized protests on Austurvöllur on Saturday.
“I think the police went too far,” said MP for the Left-Greens Álfheidur Ingadóttir. “It is absolutely unacceptable that people are grounded for protesting like police did in the case of this young man.”
“I therefore understand the anger of people completely. His companions are outraged by such measures,” Ingadóttir added. “To arrest the man the day before the demonstrations like this feels like revenge. It is also provocation and such methods only encourage people’s anger.”
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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