Winter storms still raging in Iceland – Road closures and warnings around the island
Even if summer has officially arrived in Iceland there is no stopping the snowstorms raging around the island, particularly in the east and west fjord...
Iceland depends on tourism – Now more than ever
When calculating how countries depend on tourism and the travel industry, Iceland takes the 5th place globally according to Visir’s report quoting How...
Organised tours for Germans to Iceland cancelled
Katla DMI travel agency had 1100 tours booked this spring worth about 300-400 million kroner, with a combined 7500 nights in Iceland and organized tou...
One might think summer has arrived in Iceland – But don’t be fooled.
There is an unusually warm air over Iceland these days and the predictions for the next few days look great. Yesterday the heat was spectacular in the...
An earthquake rocks the town of Keflavik
A sharp earthquake of 4.3 magnitude shook the town of Keflavik this morning. The people of the town felt the earth shift sharply but the earthq...
Easter surprise in Germany – Icelandic family lost fortune at McDonalds
An Icelandic family traveling in Germany came close to ruining their own holiday after leaving their holiday savings on the counter in McDonalds in Fr...
Magnitude 4.5 earthquake west of Reykjanes peninsula
An earthquake magnitude 4.5 rocked the south west of Iceland this morning at 3.40 am. The origin of the earthquake was 119 kilometres west southwest o...
Aleppo Kebab to open in Akureyri
Spring comes with a new addition to the culinary flora of Akureyri, a town of 18000 in northern Iceland. Some of the Syrian refugees settling in Akure...