Author: - The Reykjavik Grapevine

Caving In Búri: We Went Into The Ground

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Just as Reykjavík began to fade out of view, we turned off the highway into an area known as the…

Get Your Drink On!

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All too often visitors like yourself can be seen wandering the streets of Reykjavík in your hiking boots at around…

Reykjavík Shorts&Docs Festival: Bigger, Better, More International!

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Noted cultural event Reykjavík Shorts&Docs celebrates its tenth anniversary this year. We spoke to new festival director Heather Millard, who…

Save the Rats!

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A friend of mine swears there are rats in Reykjavík, but in my ten years in this town I have…

Caped Crusaders Slightly Disrupt Business

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Recently a wave of support swept through Iceland for an anonymous, masked group of feminist women who call themselves Big…

Thoughts On Learning Icelandic

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Why don’t those damn foreigners just learn Icelandic? Language learning is highly subjective and, as Icelanders love to tout, the…

Baby Steps

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The first multicultural conference was held recently at the same time and on the same day as the National Assembly,…

Let’s Talk

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On the morning of November 6th, the entrance to Borgarleikhúsið could have easily been mistaken for a busy New York…