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Reykjavík!
Typically they start with the weather. If you’re writing about the northernmost capital in the world, the windiest country on…
Bubbling Water and a Hidden Bathing Spot
The southern part of Iceland is a part of the country I really haven’t explored enough. I’m only familiar with…
English Football for Cinephiles
The Plot Chelsea are the bad guys, owned by an all powerful, exuberantly rich, Russian billionaire oligarch, Roman Abramovich. They…
Landmannalaugar, Sprengisandur and Akureyri
Black Sheep Down Let’s start from the beginning: On a sunny Saturday morning at the end of August, a psychic…
The Royal Treatment at Nordica Spa
by Eliza Reid
Located at Hotel Nordica, Nordica Spa offers a full range of massages, beauty treatments and aromatherapy to the frazzled business…
Never Enough Time
by grapevine
The flight over was a short but harrowing experience – 35 minutes after taking off from Reykjavík, we made our…
Screaming Viking, Ignoring the Volcano
by Bart Cameron
That their majesties the Beckhams did not turn out was only the first of the ominous signs of the evening….
THE HIGHLANDSScotland
Glasgow — “We have come over heath and rock and river and bog to what in England would be called…
RANGÁ for a Night or Weekend
by Bart Cameron
If you’ve come to Iceland to relax and have found the Reykjavík nightlife a little overwhelming; or even if you…
Mývatn
by Bart Cameron
It is spring, the sun is out, and city dwellers are losing their minds with the return of serotonin—now is…
THE WESTMAN ISLANDS: The Atlantic Stopover for Puffins, Pirates and Superstar Killer Whales
The Westman Islands often seem far away from mainland Iceland, and while Iceland was for most of its history peaceful…
BRING ON THE ELVES: TAKING ICELAND TO PARIS
Ha? I didn’t even know about the Festival. How come? Rejection and self-doubt ran through my veins. Was I not…
Exporting Volcanoes
by IIngibjörg Elsa Björnsdóttir
So when I grew up I thought that volcanic eruptions where a commonplace event. I found the 1973 eruption in…
YOU CAN’T TEACH FILM
by grapevine
In watching Rokk í Reykjavík, I got the impression that this film was a lot of fun to make. “It…
Proud Everywhere – Pride For Everyone
Anyway, now, some 15 years later, we have a huge event called Gay Pride and it has become the third…
Westman’s Your Man
by John Boyce
The islands, just a few miles off the south coast, are composed entirely from lava, formed when volcanoes erupted under…
LIFE BEYOND GULLFOSS
by Jonas Moody
From mighty death blow to a slap in the face The landscape between Selfoss and Vík is fairly uniform, verdant…
Geysir
“I’ve given all the good stuff to my believers a little closer to the biblical homelands” said the man with…