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Holiday Opening Hours

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Since many of you reading this may be tourists stranded in Iceland over the coming Holiday season, we decided to…

When Ireland Met Iceland

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Connecting two islands, one lighthouse at a timeGalway City, Ireland. As I make my way through its winding streets on…

Clean Up Your Act!

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When thinking of things to do on a late summer evening, I have to say that rummaging around in a…

All Is Not As It Seems With Elías Knörr

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When you stumble across someone creating fresh stirrings in a literary culture that’s already on a constant creative simmer, they…

This Man Crossed Iceland With No Outside Help And He’ll Do It Again

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Meet Louis-Philippe Loncke, art enthusiast-turned-engineer-turned explorer extraordinaire. Last summer Lou-Phi, as he likes to be called, completed an exploration first;…

Your Fancy Christmas Gift List

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It’s the quintessential Christmas quandary. What to buy for the ones you love, the ones you like, and the ones…

SEEDS Of Revolution

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They creep so subtly under the radar that it’s easy to miss them. Like invisible elves bustling about, fixing up…

From Farm to Fork

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Rummaging through boxes of vegetables in a local supermarket recently, I noticed something on my quest for the holy trinity…

A Win for KinWins at StartUp Weekend

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Family focused online game KinWins, currently in development by ‘Start Up Kids’ Sesselja Vilhjalmsdóttir, Valgerður Halldórsdóttir and three software developers,…

Get Your Business Out of the Starting Blocks

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Startup Weekend Iceland steam-rolls its way to town this weekend for a 54-hour training fest that aims to foster the…

Welcome to Leikjavík

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Welcome to Leikjavík, Reykjavik’s newest game centre and meeting place for all those who are bonkers about board games and…

Útidúr: This mess we’ve made

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I highly recommend that you do not leave this island without the debut album from local twelve-piece band Útidúr stowed…

Hurts to Rock Reykjavík A Second Time

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Following their stunning performance at the Airwaves festival last month, it was announced today that UK synth-pop duo Hurts are…

Airwaves Brings in Half Billion ISK To Reykjavík

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Foreign visitors to this year’s Iceland Airwaves festival brought almost half a billion krónar to the local economy in just…

True North: Akureyri

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On arriving in Iceland, it generally follows that tourists are bombarded with advertisements to experience either of two things. Firstly…

Nigeria Celebrates Fifty Years of Independence

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Ráðhúsið, Reykjavík’s City Hall, was alive to the beating of drums, dancing and celebration last Saturday as Reykjavík’s Nigerian community…

Efterklang Inspires A New Generation Of Efterkids

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Welcome to Efterkids, the brainchild of Danish super band Efterklang. The project, which out in February of this year, seeks…

Second Coming

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I didn’t expect to see fourteen musicians on stage, a mind-boggling array of instruments and an audience ranging from rock…

Amsterdam – Saturday

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Amsterdam is a bit of a mixed bag tonight with a reasonably mixed line up ranging from teenage spunk to…

Risið – Friday

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Photo by Hörður Sveinsson I arrived at Risið to find a well-behaved crowd sitting in chairs listening intently to the…

NASA – Friday

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Photo by Hvalreki Ljósvaki were first up, and from the off puzzled, then confused and then confused some more. There…

Reykjavík Art Museum – Thursday

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Photo by Hörður Sveinsson Thinking I would be late, I burst in the side door of the Reykjavík Art Museum…

Your Airwaves Experience on Live Project

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For the first time, Airwaves festival goers will be able to stream their concert videos and photos straight from their…

The Good Doctor’s Guide to Surviving Airwaves

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While Airwaves is a rather fun and fabulous time for most, it’s possible that at one stage or another you,…

The Chamber Choir of South Iceland at Iceland Airwaves

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Kammerkór Suðurlands (The Chamber choir of South Iceland), introduce their latest CD of sacred music at Landakotskirkja, Reykjavík’s Catholic Church,…