Author: Gabriel Dunsmith
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Outside Of Reykjavík: Mountains, Sagas And… Goats
Here are a few interesting spots to star on your Google Map for your next Iceland road trip. Place: Borg…
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Witching Hour: The Femininity & Magic Of Wiola Ujazdowska’s Art
Tiny glass vials filled with saliva, nail clippings, eyelashes and menstrual blood hung from a wall in Kaffibarinn this past…
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Quirky Culture: Where Vikings Still Rule
Run for your halberd and prepare to hack your way to Valhalla: the days of Viking rule in Iceland are…
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Hour Of The Wolf: Late Nights At 10/11
Working nights as a security guard at 10-11 isn’t for the faint of heart. Iceland’s 24-hour grocery chain sees all…
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New In Town: Perlan Kaffitár
Perlan, the iconic dome overlooking Reykjavík, may be officially closed for renovations, but that hasn’t stopped a Kaffitár coffee shop…
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Quirky Culture: The Dookie Dropper
Tourists, think twice before you drop your drawers on a farmer’s lawn while galavanting around this magical, elf-filled haven. Þorkell…
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The Eccentric Trad Society of Ölsmiðjan
Once a week, after schoolyards fall quiet and workdays end, a handful of musicians climb the stairs of a whitewashed…
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Chris Foster’s ‘Hadelin’: English Folk Hits Reykjavík
English folk ballads don’t get much attention these days on a musical stage saturated with grunge-hip-techno-disco-pop. But here to give…
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Pedal to the Metal: Just Don’t Say ‘Hillary’ and Don’t Say ‘Clinton’
Imagine hundreds of Icelanders descending upon rural America to partake in what seems a very American pastime: racing, crashing and…
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Vulnerable Beings: Emilie Dalum Explores Cancer and Healing in Photo Memoir
One day last February, Emilie Dalum was getting ready to go to lunch when her doctor called. “I was only…
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Fake News! No, There’s No Football-Fueled Baby Boom in Iceland
A single tweet from an obscure Reykjavík anesthesiologist on Monday suggested that a spike in the number of hospital epidurals…
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Ask an Icelander: What the Last Thing You Bought?
Name: Þyri Árnadóttir Age: 29 Job: Dancer at Íslenski Dansflokkurinn (Iceland Dance Company) Last Thing I Bought: Coriander
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Quirky Culture: The President’s Socks
Forget speeches, foreign tours and bureaucratic preamble. Iceland’s president, Guðni Th. Jóhannnesson, is now addressing the nation through his socks….
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Iceland’s Environmental Paradox
The average tourist is primed to think of Iceland as the greenest nation on earth. Advertisements endlessly yammer on about…
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Churches, Skyr & A Surprise Plastic Cow: Reykjavík Sightseeing’s Walking Tour
Reykjavík is thronging with tours these days. Everywhere you look, there are biking tours, walking tours, boating tours, helicopter tours—and…
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The Smoky City: Air Pollution in Reykjavík Soars
Early risers may have noticed that Reykjavík looks a little more sulphuric than normal recently. Yesterday morning, as city-dwellers rushed…