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Last Chance! Win Two Tickets To Iceland Airwaves & More!
We’re super excited to partner up with Iceland Airwaves and offer you a chance to win two festival tickets + Airwaves Plus upgrade & our special Grapevine x Airwaves Survival Box! To enter, all you have to do is: 👉Follow both @rvkgrapevine…
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Volcano Bread Cake Competition Underway
Members of Erla and Erla’s Brauðtertufélagi Facebook group are currently in a friendly competition to try and bake the best volcano cake inspired by the recent eruption, reports RÚV. [su_pullquote]The Volcano is on (again) at Fagradalsfjall! Check out our volcano merch in…
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Bag Yourself Some Icelandic Candy
Halloween creeps up on us once more this weekend, and since this annual celebration of all things ghoulish has become closely associated with candy we thought that we’d give you the chance to win a box of delicious Icelandic confectionery. We’ll even…
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Nature Abhors A Vacuum: In The Wake Of WOW
The Reykjavík Grapevine and most of Iceland have been watching the struggles of WOW Air since last year as it scrambled to find investors. But time ran out in late March and the plucky purple airline has gone out of business. The…
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A Costco Kind Of Madness
It’s another unremarkable, crisp Tuesday morning and I’m shaking my head at the disappointingly calm crowd that has been queuing in front of Costco all morning. I’m waiting for people to shove each other aside like animals at the watering hole or…
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Costco Gas Prices Expose Oligopoly
Tomorrow, Costco opens its doors in Iceland and already the American wholesale giant is causing a ruckus in the Icelandic retail market, with its gas prices shaking up the competition. Cleverly Costco set the prices on their gas pumps at 169.5 krónas,…
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Welcoming Autumn For This Week’s #GVPics
Autumn is approaching, and the change of season is noticeable in the entries we received for this week’s #GVpics contest. Not only are the colours in the landscape changing, but it’s also the time to see northern lights at their best. Remember…
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Freeing It In This Week’s #GVPics Instagram Competition
Colours, the sun and all things nice in this week’s Instagram competition. Iceland is exceptionally green this time of year, making landscape photography a lot of fun. Check out the winner and runners-up and remember to keep tagging your pictures with #gvpics for a…
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Street Art Came To Life In This Week’s #GVPics Competition
This week’s Instagram competition photos were so thought provoking, humorous, artistic and beautiful. We have said it before and we’re saying it again: it’s really hard for us to pick out ten pictures as our runners-up and then, of course, a #GVPics winner.…
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Iceland On Instagram: The Winner Of #GVPics
Another week, another Instagram competition! Except this week, we have an amazing prize. Two tickets to the Improv Iceland show, May 10th. You do not want to miss this. We recommend looking through all of the photographs under the hashtag #GVpics to…
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#GVPics Contest: Iceland’s First Days Of Summer
Looking out the window and seeing folks enjoying the sun in April is a rare sight. The sun that is, not the happy folks. It is approximately 11°C outside right now meaning no oversized furry coats anymore, just your most fashionable shades.…
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The Winner Of This Week’s #GVPics Competition
This week’s competition was amazing with so many beautiful photographs made choosing only ten extremely difficult. It’s amazing to see everybody’s interpretation of Icelandic nature and daily life. Remember to keep tagging your photographs with the hashtag #GVpics for a chance of…
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And The Winner Of This Week’s #GVPics Instagram Contest Is
Another week has passed which means more travel, more photo opportunities and a lot more sun! Now is the time to put up your sixties styled shades, dab some sunscreen on your nose, hike a mountain, see a play or fall in…
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The Winner & Runners-up Of This Week’s #GVPics
The sky is clear, the sun is shining and our readers have captured the country in its most beautiful attire, spring! It’s always a pure joy looking over the entries in our #GVpics competition and the stunning photos of this week really…
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Iceland On Instagram: This Week’s #GVpics Champion
We’ve had a steady stream of Instagram photographs marked #GVpics that continually amaze us, and this week was no exception. We are really glad to see that readers are enjoying the longer and brighter days, and of course, capturing the moments and…
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The Best Photos From This Week’s #GVPICS
Each week we pick ten photographs from our #gvpics Instagram competition we find interesting, funny, or beautiful. This week’s entries were amazing and picking only ten pictures was a headache. Remember to tag your picture with #gvpics for a chance of becoming…
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Photos Of The Week: #GVpics Instagram Contest
Dear Instagrammers, photographers and readers. Thank you for all of your wonderful submissions in our #GVpics Instagram contest. It is always such a joy scrolling through the wonderful photographs of buildings, animals, venues and trips around the country. The pictures for this…
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OMG! #GVpics! The Week’s Best Iceland Instagrams
Wow! Can you believe that a week passed since the last #GVpics winner was announced? Time is FLYING round here. It’s terrifying! Where did this week go? We’re all gonna die! WTF! Aaaaaaa! But hey uh, in the meantime, Instagramming sure is…
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Weekly #GVpics: The 10 Best Iceland Instagrams
We had a nice visit yesterday from Julia, the winner of last week’s #GVpics Instagram competition, who dropped by with her eight-year-old son Ágúst to pick up their two t-shirts. Here’s what went down: Our #GVpics winner @juliamai popped in the collect…
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Sheep In The City: The Golden Shears 2015
Stepping outside to the port behind KEX Hostel last Saturday, I was greeted with the sounds of accordion music, a rather unpleasant but not too obtrusive smell and the sight of traditional Icelandic woollen sweaters, sixpence hats, and plaid shirts in abundance—in…
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WIN WIN WIN!! Take part in our special Reykjavik Rocks competition!
If you’ve seen our recent piece about the totally awesome Reykjavik Rocks bus tour that is happening during Airwaves, then you know that it sounds like a great way to see the sights of this fine town. But how would you like…