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Here you can see where the bridge has been pushed aside by the ice flood taking the road apart.

“I heard some really horrific rumblings"

15 Feb 2023 Víðir Már Gíslason and his partner Linda Carlsson are trapped in the town of Barkarstaðir in Svartárdalur valley with four primary school-age children, but the couple runs a sheep farm.

Ásgeir Jónsson governor of the Central Bank of Iceland.

Nominal interest rate system might suffer while indexed loans gain ground

10 Feb 2023 Ásgeir Jónsson governor of the Central Bank says that a nominal interest rate system based on non-indexed loans with variable interest rates will not work if the instability of the Icelandic economy continues.

Søren Sørensson to the left and Erlendur Birgisson are prepared for the trip to Turkey tomorrow and have the high energy chocolate Prins Polo as part of their emergency food packages.

Leave for Turkey tonight

7 Feb 2023 “It’s super frustrating that the weather is treating us like this, but there’s nothing to do. We’re just going to use the time to prepare better,” says Sólveig Þorvaldsdóttir, who leads the Icelandic group headed to the disaster earthquake area in Turkey. As has been reported, at least five thousand people have lost their lives in that country and in Syria after a series of very strong earthquakes. The group of experts in question is headed by the ICE-SAR Association, Landsbjörg and will help in the search.

All the more reason to exercise when you are in your 70s.

Upped her physical game in her 70s

5 Feb 2023 “Everything is possible. People should not see closed doors, it is up to us to open the door,” says Bessí Jóhannsdóttir, who decided to start exercising vigorously when she left her job as a regular history teacher at the Commercial College of Iceland four years ago.

The Game of Thrones actor Iain Glen is very fond of Icelandic nature and says he will be back even though his last trip was very different than planned due to the severe snowstorm in December.

Iceland on the list of favourite destinations

29 Jan 2023 Iain Glen is in a hotel room somewhere in South Africa where he is currently shooting. We found a time in the busy day to chat in a video call over half the world, discussing worlds and spaces; the long career, the Game of Thrones and his acting in the Icelandic film Napoleonic Documentary, which premieres here next Friday. Glen is very easy going and it is like talking to an old friend, not a famous celebrity. He leaned back in his seat, dressed in a red t-shirt and started talking. And the African sun shone through the window.

Katrín Jakobsdóttir the Prime Minister of Iceland thinks she is very unlucky when it comes to canceled flights and perhaps she should warn others when she plans on flying - just in case.

Thinks it is only right to warn people

28 Jan 2023 Iceland's Prime Minister Katrín Jakobsdóttir put forth an idea in an Instagram posting today, to always post information about when she has a flight booked, so people can choose other dates to travel, “because it’s quite clear that if I’m on the flight, it will be canceled,” the minister says in the entry.

Rarely sees people under 30 in his store and is closing shop in Höfðabakki

26 Jan 2023 “It was the best-selling fish shop in the country for eleven years,” says Kristján Berg Ásgeirsson, who many people immediately associate with the fish stores Fiskikóngurinn or the Fishing King. He is closing his fish store in Höfðabakki 1 today. He says he is almost flabbergasted when people under thirty appear in the store and says that pizzas have taken over seafood when it comes to the young generation.

Right decision based on the forecast

23 Jan 2023 It was the right decision not to postpone or cancel flights from North America yesterday morning based on the knowledge of the weather at the time, according to Icelandair’s CEO Nils Bogason. He says the weather forecast did not indicate that the weather would be as bad as it actually was.

The Scottish national dish Haggis might not look fancy but is beloved by many and a decade's long staple for Burns Supper.

Haggis almost brought down Burns Supper

21 Jan 2023 The Icelandic Edinburgh Society’s banquet, held in January each year to celebrate the birthday of Scottish poet Robert Burns, was cancelled for a few days due to the failure to secure the Scottish national dish haggis. The members of the Edinburgh Society are mostly Icelanders who have studied in Scotland as well as their spouses and Scots who are in the country.

Even though there are a lot of mountains in the area, good natural slopes for sledges are not easily found.

Turned the road into a sledge slope

16 Jan 2023 A decision was made over the weekend to temporarily block the traffic of cars on Hrafnadalsvegur in Tálknafjörður, Iceland, and to turn the road into a sledge slope for townspeople to enjoy. Ólafur Þór Ólafsson, the municipal manager of Tálknafjörður, says the townspeople have been very welcoming of the change.

Þingvallavatn lake in Þingvellir, where the temperatures have been in the minus double digits last night and today.

Cold temperatures dropped to minus 22 C in Þingvellir

15 Jan 2023 The cold weather persists in the country in this unusually cold winter. This morning the temperatures went down to minus 22 degrees Celsius in Þingvellir.

The Dutch tourists were not in a bad condition when the rescue team came to the rescue, but they were not equipped for mountaineering in the winter.

Tourists rescued from Ketilaugarfjall

12 Jan 2023 A rescue team from Höfn assisted two Dutch tourists down from Mount Ketilaugarfjall yesterday.

Fáskrúðsfjörður has decided to change traditions.

The Couples' Ball in Fáskrúðsfjörður is now for everyone 25 and older

11 Jan 2023 “The population composition here has changed as in many other parts of the country and twenty percent of the population here are immigrants,” Eiríkur Ólafsson, chairman of the “Couples' Dance” committee in Fáskrúðsfjörður, told mbl.is.

Father and son spending quality time together and learning something useful at the same time.

Father and son studying together

8 Jan 2023 Father and son, Sigurður Brynjar Pálsson and Sölvi Steinn Sigurðsson, are both learning to become carpenters at FB’s night school. Studying together in school has been nice and they plan to build together a guesthouse at the family’s summerhouse next summer.

Nine taken to hospital after an accident in Öræfi

3 Jan 2023 A serious car accident occurred at Suðurlandsvegur by Öldulón in Öræfi today and a call for help was made to the Coast Guard after two o’clock today.