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New Eruption Photos, Info

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“The eruption continues to rumble on, with continuing quite spectacular fissure eruption activity,” Grapevine’s volcanologist friend James Ashworth reports in…

Eruption Report #3

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                      The eruption continues to rumble on, with continuing quite…

A Mountain Is Being Born On Fimmvörðuháls

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A new mountain is currently being born on Fimmvörðuháls. The accompanying pic was shot by Þorsteinn Jónsson of Lambey in…

THE ERUPTION REPORT #2

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Hello again folks. Just thought I’d give a brief update of what’s happening in a simple but hopefully fairly correct…

Volcano Still Erupting

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The Eyjafjallajökull eruption continues to rage on, although it has apparently calmed down a tad since three o’ clock this…

Eyjafjallajökull Eruption: Video Footage

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Grapevine embarked upon a rather fruitless trip to the South coast of Iceland to try and spot some volcanic activities…

EYJAFJALLAJÖKULL ERUPTION, 15 HOURS IN

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Grapevine’s volcanologist student friend James Ashworth wrote this for us. He is very smart about volcanoes. Expect more from James…

Volcano Erupts Under Eyjafjallajökull

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A volcanic eruption has just begun under the Eyjafjallajökull glacier. This has been verified by local authorities in neighbouring Hvolsvöllur….

Making Little Guys Accessible In A Small Country

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Kino Klúbbur’s Rebecca Moran has a mission Icelanders like to brag about per capita records. Most published books in the…

A Year Of Waiting, Undercurrent, Countdown, Festivals And No Revolution

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The 2009 artworld discussed, somewhatThe Grapevine somehow managed to convince two of its favourite people from the local artworld –…

Brilliant Hike on Sólheimajökull

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“For how many gin and tonics could you get ice from this glacier?” asks one co-traveller as our group of…

Come to Daddi’s! The Lake Mývatn Region Explored Via A Pizza Menu. Yes, A Pizza Menu.

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“Out of the 500.000 tourists that give Icelanders the honour of their presence every year, 80 percent visit this mind-blowing…

The Metaphysical Art Of Sailing The North Atlantic. Sailing From The West Fjords To The Faroese Islands; There And Back Again In One Piece

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The Sea, the Sea, the Unending Sea There is something elemental that happens when you face an unbridled ocean. It’s…

Recent activity hints at Katla eruption

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Seismic tremors ten kilometres beneath Eyjafjallajökull, west of Mýrdalsjökull, indicate that an eruption of the volcano Katla may be in…

Speechless By The Mountain

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This short philosophical essay evokes the question of the existence of the human being and his relations to the outside…

Watch Your Back – Don’t Let the Serene Atmosphere Of The Southern Village Of Vík Fool You.

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In Vík, the little white-and-red church stands alone, overlooking the sleepy village. Birds nest in the vertical Reynisfjall cliffs and…

Focus on Iceland

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This travel book from 2008 is built around 600 photographs by Rafn Hafnfjörð, a well-established Icelandic photographer known for his…

The Red House

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Rauða Húsið (“The Red House”) was built by the powerful and progressive Mrs. Guðmunda Níelsen in 1919 for her retail…

Inside Reykjavík: The Grapevine Guide

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Yes, I have a conflict of interest in reviewing this book, as I have done work for the author, and…

The Ice Museum: In Search of the Lost Land of Thule

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The Ice Museum is a kind of travelogue about north European regions, with chapters on Oslo, Shetland, Iceland, northern Norway,…

The Day We Started Fighting Back

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“We will not go quietly into the night! We will not vanish without a fight! We’re going to live on!…