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Top 5 Places Trump & Putin Should Go If They Meet In Iceland
Last weekend, The Sunday Times reported that US President Elect and short-fingered shouting enthusiast Donald Trump might be planning a…
Grapevine’s 2017 Prophecies
What wonders will the new year have in store for us? We consulted some of Iceland’s best psychics (in our…
2016 In Travel: Small Towns, Ice Caves, Volcanoes, Islands
by John Rogers
To look back on Grapevine’s year in travel, we decided to first go the empirical populism route, and drew up…
Quake Recorded Near Katla This Morning
A tremor measuring 3.5 on the Richter scale was recorded just west of the Katla volcano early this morning, RÚV…
The Once Sky: Two Days In Rif And Hellissandur
The colour, I am certain, has never existed before, and will never exist again. It has something to do with…
Exploring Exploration: The Explorers Festival Comes To Húsavík
by Signe Smala
“Can you imagine being up there, literally on the moon, flipping the pages of your instruction manual, and coming across…
Grapevine’s Super-Team Super-Review: Wednesday
Airwaves: it’s everywhere. There are rappers on the tables of your favourite morning coffee shop and punk bands in the…
Iceland To Be Featured In New Werner Herzog Documentary
The acclaimed director’s new documentary will include Iceland – in particular, its volcanoes – as it sets to premier next…
American Tourists To Outnumber Iceland’s Population
by Signe Smala
It is expected that, at the end of this year, the number of American tourists who have visited Iceland in 2016 will grow beyond 332,000…
Volcanoes! Storms! Lightning! It’s The Travel News Roundup
by John Rogers
The volcano Katla, located close to the southern Ring Road, has continued to rumble intermittently over the last weeks. Over…
All Calm And Quiet At Katla
Despite the contentions of more lurid reporting on Katla over the past few days, the volcano is not about to…
No Sign Of Erupting, Katla Quakes Yet Again
Nearly 200 tremors were recorded around the volcano Katla over the past 24 hours, RÚV reports. Three of these tremors…
Katla Teases Us Once Again
Tremors were recorded just south of the volcano Katla yesterday, but it remains decidedly unclear if an eruption is imminent….
A World Beneath Our Feet: The Víðgelmir Lava Cave
It becomes dark almost as soon as we begin our descent into Víðgelmir. It’s the kind of darkness to which…
Last Weekend’s Earthquakes Possibly Caused By Geothermal Power
A series of quakes reported over the past few days may be connected to the Hellisheiði geothermal power plant. RÚV…
Completely Normal Tremors Recorded Around Katla
A series of tremors were recorded around the volcano Katla yesterday, none of them giving any indications that an eruption…
Heroes & Villains – The 14th One
by The Reykjavík Grapevine and Andie Sophia Fontaine
Our new hero is the Icelandic volcano. Iceland is riddled with volcanoes, and they come in a variety of shapes,…
Iceland’s Top 5 Volcanoes: Hot Or Not?
With the recent news that seismic activity was recorded around the volcano Katla, international media sources were quick to declare…
Skaftá Flooding Has Begun
The river Skaftá is flooding at a rate greater than what rain or melting glacial ice could account for, indicating…
Travel News: Aurora Spotting, Happy Russians, Eruption Advice
by John Rogers
The Norðurflug helicopter tours company has launched a new combination trip for the winter season, when the northern lights are…
Volcano Watch: A Closer Look At Katla
by John Rogers
Hvolsvöllur is a sleepy village in south Iceland, between Hella and Seljalandsfoss. It’s a somewhat forgettable, blink-and-you’ll-miss-it settlement of just…