Secret Solstice selling world’s most expensive ticket
Iceland’s Secret Solstice festival has announced that it is offering the world’s most expensive concert ticket for this summer’s event. The festival, ...
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Pilot whale pod slaughtered in the Faroes
A large pod of pilot whales have been slaughtered in the Faroe Islands, in keeping with the archipelago’s ‘grindadrap’ tradition which sees the cullin...
Bjork releases 360-degree music video
Icelandic musician Bjork has released a 360-degree music video for her latest track Stonemilker. Having already released an interactive album and a 3D...
Iceland sends 1,700 tonnes of whale meat to Japan
A vessel transporting 1,700 tonnes of whale meat departed Iceland on route to Japan on Thursday, announced an activist group that is protesting the sh...
Danish Bieber lookalike amassing missions of social media followers
A 16-year-old Danish teenager boasts five million Facebook followers and a further one million on Instagram all because he looks like pop sensation Ju...
Lonely Planet to reprint after Stockholm error
The travel guidebook publisher Lonely Planet is reprinting its most recent issue after a picture of Uppsala featured on the front cover and not, as st...
Guest threatens Icelandic hotel staff with Tripadvisor
“Tripadvisor is a great page” says Birna Mjöll Atladóttir, hotelier at Hótel Breiðavík in Iceland. A guest recently visited the hotel and used Tripadv...
Icelandic film ‘Rams’ awarded at Cannes Film Festival
Icelandic movie Rams picked up the Un Certain Regard award at the Cannes Film Festival, with former documentary maker Grimur Hakonarson collecting the...