Reykjavik – most expensive European capital to visit for Christmas
According to hotel search engine travelmyth.com, Reykjavik is the most expensive European capital to visit for the Christmas holidays. The average pri...
Poverty in Iceland, 860 families need help this Christmas in the capital area
Eight hundred and sixty families have applied for aid in December from the Family-help organization in Reykjavik and the town of Reykjanes this year. ...
Visitors make note of Icelandic manners
Manners of Icelanders don’t go unnoticed with rising numbers of foreign visitors. Icelanders apparently eat very fast, draw in air through the nose wi...
The first Yule lad arrives today
Tonight children in Iceland will place their shoe in the window and the first Christmas man, or Yule lad will come and sneak into all children’s rooms...
The rise of the Icelandic krona is affecting the tourist industry
The ever more expensive Icelandic currency, the krona (IKR) is resulting in higher prices for tourists and has already started to harm the tourist ind...
A message in a bottle found after eleven years
Well over eleven years ago, a nine-year-old girl, Dagny Lilja Arnarsdottir wrote a message with a nicely drawn picture, placed it in a bottle and thre...
Your online password´s aren’t safe
In fact your password might very well be available for anyone to retrieve with simple measures. Millions of passwords are accessible online and many o...
Volunteers teaching Syrian families Icelandic
Refugees from Syria have been able to attend Icelandic lessons given by members of public in the town of Akureyri for the past month, the proje...