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2016 In Travel: Small Towns, Ice Caves, Volcanoes, Islands
To look back on Grapevine’s year in travel, we decided to first go the empirical populism route, and drew up a list of the most clicked, liked and read stories we published in 2016. The first noticeable pattern was that our…
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People of Grímsey
Harpa Þórey & Gabríel, shopkeepers (pictured above) “We moved here in 2005, from Akureyri. The life is very different, and it’s quiet. My husband is from here. We have the fish market, and a couple of boats, this shop, and a hobby…
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Living On The Edge: A Trip To Grímsey, Iceland’s Arctic Island
It’s almost 2pm when our tiny propeller plane passes over the glossy white mountains that mark Iceland’s northern coastline. I press my face to the cold glass to see the fjords below. They’re vast and undulating, full of intriguing nooks that seem…
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Last Chance For Aurora Borealis?
As the days get longer and the nights get lighter, the chances of seeing the aurora borealis over Iceland recede for the summer. But this weekend, the aurora forecast at vedur.is is an above-average four/five out of nine, which means there might…
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German Man’s Wish To Be Buried In Iceland Granted
A German man’s last wish was to be buried in Grímsey has been granted, reports DV. Richard Ochs was born on January 28 and passed away in February this year. “This is very special,” said Alfreð Garðarsson chairman of the Miðgarðakirkja parish church in…
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Grímsey: Hanging Out On The Arctic Circle
“You’re spending five days on Grímsey?”, a Reykjavík friend asked me in astonishment. “But there’s nothing to do there.” ”Precisely why I’m going there,” I replied. For I’d rather go to a place where there’s “nothing to do” than to a place…
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Grímsey: Island Of Chess Players
Willard is not your typical Icelandic name, but until a few decades ago it was a not an uncommon name on the island of Grímsey. Not Sigurður, Haukur, Hilmar, or Þorgeir, but Willard. The reason is as follows: the American writer, linguist,…