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Antonio Banderas in Iceland

12 Feb 2016 Spanish actor and heartthrob Antonio Banderas is currently holidaying in Iceland with his girlfriend Nicole Kimpel.

Children celebrate Öskudagur in fancy dress

10 Feb 2016 Today is Öskudagur, Ash Wednesday and the beginning of lent, a day when children dress up in costumes and go begging for candy. Our photographer captured some of the strange creatures that were out and about this morning in Reykjavik.

WIth increasing passenger rates at the airport, demand for parking spaces is also on the rise.

Parking fees double at Keflavik International Airport

8 Feb 2016 Parking fees at Keflavik International Airport in Iceland will go up on April 1st. The biggest increase in parking fees is at the short-term parking area where the hourly rate goes up from 230 ISK to 500 ISK.

Roads in many parts of Iceland have become impassable.

Snow storm: Rescue teams at work

4 Feb 2016 Rescue team Húnar in Hvammstangi have been hard at work since the storm hit this afternoon. The team have come to the rescue of eight cars stuck on the mountain road of Holtavörðuheiði.

One of the traditions of Ash Wednesday is to pin ash-bags on unsuspecting peoples backs.

Next week's festivities: Mischief with bags of ash

3 Feb 2016 Though Ash Wednesday may be a religious day in many countries, this is not the case for most people in Iceland, especially not for kids. In Iceland most children dress up in costumes, whilst others pin ash-bags on the backs of the unsuspecting.

Ísafjörður in the West Fjords of Iceland.

Guests of the Finnish sauna can finally go in the nude

3 Feb 2016 Town authorities in the Ísafjörður swimming pool have decided to take signs downs stipulating that guests should wear a bathing suit to the Finnish sauna. This action was taken after a letter of protest from Finnish sauna lovers.

Pirates go down slightly in polls

3 Feb 2016 According to a new poll by MMR on the support for Iceland's political parties, the Pirate party has gone down by 2 percent since the last poll and now garners 35.6 percent support.

Check the weather forecast and road administration websites, roads could get impassable tomorrow.

Snowstorm predicted tomorrow afternoon

3 Feb 2016 The Iceland Met Office predicts a a snowstorm tomorrow afternoon with mountain roads becoming impassable.

The young Turkish traveller pitched up a tent in snowy, cold Egilsstaðir last night.

Travelling with a tent in the Icelandic winter

2 Feb 2016 A tent was spotted in an unusual location this morning by a journalist of local paper Víkurfréttir this morning - in Egilsstaðir, East Iceland in the snow and a chilly temperature of -4 degrees on Celsius.

Some Icelandic phrases are so bizarre that they're causing a worldwide sensation.

Weird Icelandic words are a Twitter sensation

1 Feb 2016 Foreigners seem intrigued by the fact that Icelandic has a special word for weather called window weather (gluggaveður). The word has been a popular subject internationally on Twitter where Icelanders are praised for inventing a word that describes weather which only looks good seen from a window but is not so good if you actually go outside.