Icelanders excited as ever about the Eurovision Song Contest
The 2016 Eurovision song contest will be held in Stockholm in May and Icelanders are taking an extra festive approach this year as Iceland’s participa...
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Bolla! Bolla! Icelandic Bun day, a Carnival Week of Sorts
Bolludagur, Bun Day is today, Monday with many Icelanders gathering around the coffee table at home with family or at work with colleagues after makin...
Worst Storm of the New Year So Far
The Icelandic Meteorological Office has issued a storm warning for today, Thursday. The whole of Iceland will be affected, but the weather will be par...
Storm Warning – Better not Travel
There is no travel weather out there today so if you had a trip planned, better cancel or postpone. If you must travel please pay close attention to V...
Winter Lights Festival Opens Tomorrow
The Reykjavík Winter Lights Festival opens this week, celebrating this dark time of year with art installations and events that utilize light in diffe...
Rutabaga farmers by day, artists by night
Musicians Svavar Pétur Eysteinsson and Berglind Häsler promptly left Reykjavík in the rearview mirror in 2014 and moved to the country, they got a far...
GPS Mishap Takes American Tourist on a Wild Adventure
Noel Santillan, an American tourist, ended up on a wild goose chase upon his arrival in Iceland, when he accidentally put in the wrong address for his...
Syrian Refugees to Iceland – A Documentary
Árni Gunnarsson, formerly fronting the Icelandic refugee-committee (Flóttamannaráð), founded in 1995, has followed some of the refugee´s voyage with a...