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New Eruption Photos, Info
“The eruption continues to rumble on, with continuing quite spectacular fissure eruption activity,” Grapevine’s volcanologist friend James Ashworth reports in…
A Mountain Is Being Born On Fimmvörðuháls
A new mountain is currently being born on Fimmvörðuháls. The accompanying pic was shot by Þorsteinn Jónsson of Lambey in…
THE ERUPTION REPORT #2
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
by grapevine
The Eyjafjallajökull eruption continues to rage on, although it has apparently calmed down a tad since three o’ clock this…
Eyjafjallajökull Eruption: Video Footage
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
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
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
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
The 2009 artworld discussed, somewhatThe Grapevine somehow managed to convince two of its favourite people from the local artworld –…
Brilliant Hike on Sólheimajökull
by Satu Rämö
“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.
by Sigurður Kjartan Kristinsson
“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
by Marc Vincenz
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
Seismic tremors ten kilometres beneath Eyjafjallajökull, west of Mýrdalsjökull, indicate that an eruption of the volcano Katla may be in…
Speechless By The Mountain
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.
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
This travel book from 2008 is built around 600 photographs by Rafn Hafnfjörð, a well-established Icelandic photographer known for his…
The Red House
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
by Ian Watson
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
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
“We will not go quietly into the night! We will not vanish without a fight! We’re going to live on!…