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Perfect days and various other guides to doing things in and around Reykjavík
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Allie Doersch’s Perfect Day in Reykjavík: Tea, Stick ‘n’ Pokes, Mario Kart
Allie Doersch is an artist, and the raging punk frontwoman of the band Tófa. She shared with us her perfect day, which starts with cats and ends with schadenfreude. First thing It‘s Saturday. After my cats, Mjágústa and Voffi Pizza Kistján, wake…
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Colm O’Herlihy’s Perfect Day In Reykjavík
Colm O’Herlihy is an Irishman living in Iceland, working as the manager of two top labels, Bedroom Community & Mengi Records. He’s often to be seen buzzing around downtown, typing away in the bars, venues and cafés of 101. Here he shares…
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Jóhanna Guðrún’s Perfect Day In Reykjavík
Jóhanna Guðrún is an Icelandic pop singer best known for her iconic 2008 Eurovision song ‘Is It True?’ To learn more about her, we sat down with the Hafnarfjörður resident to talk about her perfect day. If you relate to the musician,…
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Vinyl Fantasy VII: A Guide To Reykjavík Record Stores
Downtown Reykjavík has some great independent record stores, all of which sell LPs by Icelandic artists that you might not find elsewhere. So if—or more likely, when—you fall head over heels for some Icelandic band during Airwaves, here are the places where…
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City Guide: Reykjavík’s Best Pizza
Most visitors to Iceland understandably want to try some traditional Icelandic cuisine, which is mostly centred around lamb and fish dishes. But Reykjavík, small as it is, does have some capital city perks. Whether it’s a quick bite for lunch or an…
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Óli Dóri’s Perfect Day In Reykjavík
Óli Dóri is a Grapevine music columnist a downtown DJ. He’s operations manager at Bíó Paradís and a host of the Straumur radio show on x97. Read his Straumur columns here. First thing in the morning? I wake up around 9:30, and…
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Autumn Walks In Reykjavík
While you won’t find many crunchy leaves or pumpkin spiced treats in Reykjavík, that doesn’t mean that there aren’t a plethora of other ways to celebrate the upcoming fall season here. Our pick? A jaunt through the good ole’ outdoors. Heiðmörk Heiðmörk…
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Sturla Viðar Jakobsson’s Perfect Day In Reykjavík
Sturla Viðar Jakobsson is the leader of infamous black metal band Svartidauði. Here’s his perfect Reykjavík day. First thing in the morning? On my perfect day, I don’t get up because I have long since evolved past the biological need for sleep.…
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Jono Duffy’s Perfect Day In Reykjavík
Jono Duffy is Iceland’s premier gay Australian comedian—the only one actually. Here’s his perfect Reykjavík day. Breakfast? I used to live in Melbourne, which is the breakfast/brunch capital of the world, so this question puts me in a bit of a “Meryl…
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Glódís Perla Viggósdóttir’s Perfect Day In Reykjavík
Glódís Perla Viggósdóttir is a 22 year old footballer, currently living in Malmö, Sweden, and playing professionally with FC Rosengård and the Icelandic national team. “I grew up in Kópavogur,” she says, “in the lovely Fossvogsdalur. I’m studying Psychology from a distance…
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City Guide: Our Favourite Reykjavík Burger Joints
Iceland is mostly known, food-wise, for top quality fish and lamb, and perhaps the traditional (and kinda gross) whale meat, shark and sheep heads. But a walk around the streets of Reykjavík reveals that Icelanders love fast food, especially with a bit…
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Ólafur Örn Ólafsson’s Perfect Day In Reykjavík
TV Chef Ólafur Örn Ólafsson is a well-known face on the streets of Reykjavík and has appeared as a guest judge on ‘Masterchef Ísland’. Favourite breakfast place? I may be a little biased, but my favourite breakfast place is Rosenberg, where I…
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Get Some Theoretical Summer Sun: A Guide To Parks In Reykjavík
Wanna crack open a brewski and sit in the sun? Us too. Weather permitting, here are a few green and leafy places to do just that. Austurvöllur, Posthússtræti Austurvöllur isn’t so much a rolling, lush park as a flat square of grass…
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Laufey Elíasdóttir’s Perfect Day In Reykjavík
Laufey Elíasdóttir is a musician, photographer and actress. She has appeared in a number of notable Icelandic films, including Baltasar Kormákur’s ‘White Night Wedding’, 2014 Oscar submission ‘Vonarstræti’, and last year’s ‘Reykjavík’. She is now working on a Danish film called ‘Sticks…
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Tanja Huld Levý Guðmundsdóttir’s Perfect Day In Reykjavík
Tanja Levý is a fashion and textile designer you might remember from the recent Pull Up Your Socks sportswear project. She’s about to opening a co-op design store—YPSILON—with an opening party on July 13. Here’s how Tanja would spend a perfect day…
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The Brunching Hour: Reykjavík’s Most Decadent Hangover Meals
If you made use of our guide to Reykjavík’s music venues on page 28, you might well need this one afterwards. Think of this brunch guide as its sister article—when you’ve finished swinging the lights at Prikið, and stumbled home under the…
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Alexander Jean’s Perfect Day In Reykjavík
This issue’s Perfect Day is by DJ, aesthete, student of the arts and man-about-town Alexander Jean de Fontenay. “I like listening/dancing to, learning about and collecting music,” he says. “I enjoy going out dancing and I sometimes play my records at bars…
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Volcanoes, Glaciers & Other Wonders: The Best Iceland Day Trips
So, you’ve come to Reykjavík, the elf-infested city of glacial whalesong dreams. Let’s assume you’ve noticed by now that pretty much every second plot of land in the city centre is currently a building site coughing out clouds of dust to a…
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Jóhannes Haukur Jóhannesson’s Perfect Day In Reykjavík
Icelandic actor Jóhannes Haukur Jóhannesson is one of the leads in the Icelandic horror movie ‘Ég man þig’ (“I remember you”), now in theatres. He can also been seen in the upcoming ‘Atomic Blonde’, starring Charlize Theron. First thing in the morning:…
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Best Of Reykjavik: Outdoor Drinking In The Theoretical Sun
The weather in Iceland can change drastically from day to day, and from moment to moment, so you have to grab any opportunity that presents itself to drink a beer in the sun. Pro-tip: even if the city is in the midst…
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Fix Up Look Sharp: Icelandic Fashion Design, And Where To Find It
Reykjavík is home to a diverse variety of local fashion brands, many of whom have their own downtown stores and boutiques. From Icelandic wool products to sleek couture, streetwear and sharply tailored suits, there’s a lot of clothing here that you’ll only…
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Hekla Magnúsdóttir’s Perfect Day In Reykjavík
Hekla Magnúsdóttir is a well-known experimental musician whose weapon of choice is the good old Russian theremin. She won a Kraumur music award in 2014, the year her first album, ‘Hekla’, was released. In the morning I would sleep in! I have…
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New Italian Reykjavík
Whether it’s Mario Batali and Oscar Farinetti kicking off an unstoppable food hall trend with Eataly or dumping a Berlusconi clone in the White House, it seems the world just can’t get enough of that Italian steez. The people you’re most likely…