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Three-Year-Old Wandered Off Preschool Grounds, Found In Bónus
On July 14, a three-year-old girl at the Urriðaból preschool in Garðabær wandered off the schoolyard. According to RÚV, the runaway child opened the school gate and ended up in Bónus, Kauptún — approximately 200-300 metres away from the school. A neighbour…
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Garðabær Child Fell Down A Well
On October 5, a two-year-old child fell into a well during an afternoon stroll with their grandmother. The hole in question is situated outside an apartment building in Garðabær’s Urriðaholt. It was loosely covered with a plastic lid, which flipped over when…
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Grafarvogur Is Not Iceland’s Black Widow Capital — It’s Garðabær
Since the discovery of a Northern Black Widow spider in a bunch of grapes last week, Grafarvogur has become known in some quarters as the “Black Widow Capital of Iceland.” But now, a surprising twist to the story has drawn this characterisation…
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Frogs Swarm Garðabær Garden
“My garden is swarming with wild frogs,” Askur Hrafn Hannesson said in an interview with Vísir. The Garðabær resident said he and his family first noticed the frogs in 2017, and since then, their numbers have grown significantly. The story of one…
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Customers Can Shop 24 Hours A Day At Fully Automatic Neighbourhood Store
Iceland’s first fully automatic neighbourhood store opened in Garðabær yesterday. The store will be open 24 hours a day, every day of the year, reports Vísir. [su_pullquote]We are having a summer sale on all our Icelandic soaps, scrubs, face masks, perfumes and…
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Garðabær And Seltjarnarnes Residents Most Opposed To Borgarlína Bus Line
Strætó’s proposed Borgarlína (City Line) system still enjoys significant support, according to a survey conducted by Zenter for Fréttablaðið, Vísir reports. The project has already been discussed for nearly two years, hoping that increased availability and use of public transportation will allow…
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IKEA Christmas Goat Under 24/7 Guard
It has become a seasonal event–like the return of winter, darkness and parliament elections–the annual burning of the IKEA Christmas goat–but now the company is taking drastic measures to protect in. This Christmas, two security guards will protect it all the time,…
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Krókur: Old School Garðabær
Garðabær is probably best known to the locals as one of the more affluent towns in the greater Reykjavík area, but it wasn’t so long ago that it was just another lonely seaside rural community. While driving through it on the main…