22 Apr 2018The Reykjanes Peninsula is perhaps one of the most underrated places in Iceland. It’s the home of Keflavik International Airport, and most tourists drive straight from there to Reykjavik without so much as a stop for a look around, aside for a visit to the Blue Lagoon. They don't know what they're missing.
28 Mar 2018The route no.1 through Skeiðarársandur and in Öræfi has been closed off due to weather. This means the road to the South and South East from Kirkjubæjarklaustur towards the Glacier Lagoon. The weather is said to be "dangerous to travellers."
24 Mar 2018Anwar Alsadon from Iraq came as a refugee to Ísafjörður, in the West Fjords of Iceland recently with her son, Sultan. Their new home is very different to their former home but they are thankful and happy.
23 Mar 2018The incredible art collection by artist Samúel Jónsson in Selárdalur, North Iceland, has inspired awe and wonder by everyone who visits it. Now, a society has been formed to save the statues by the artist, who passed away in 1969 and to restore this museum at the edge of the habitable world.
26 Feb 2018 A coach overtuned near Borgarnes in West Iceland yesterday afternoon carrying 26 teenagers from France. They are being catered for in a Red Cross centre which was set up in a high school in Borgarnes.
19 Feb 2018This weekend's edition of Morgunblaðið published interviews with tourists visiting Iceland to find out what on earth they are doing in Iceland in stormy, cold February!
15 Feb 2018News has recently been shared about a newly discovered ice cave in Blágnípujökull, a SW outlet from the Hofsjökull ice cap in central Iceland, where a child has collapsed due to breathing in toxic gases. Fifteen years ago, geothermal activity which melted a hole in the ice cover, accompanied by a strong sulfur smell, was observed at this same location.
3 Feb 2018February is here. It sure is brighter outside but it's still cold. Let's all have a cozy time and enjoy the mental and physical warmth this place has to offer in so many different forms.
26 Jan 2018Guðni Th. Jóhannesson, President of Iceland, will today be visiting Harvard University in the US. He is accompanied by his wife Eliza Reid. Reid will be speaking to students and staff about women's rights in Iceland.
19 Jan 2018Michael Boyd, the widower of Shelagh Donovan who lost her life in a terrible accident at Jökulsárlón glacial lagoon in 2015 when an amphibious vehicle ran her over, says nobody apologized to him or his family for all this time.
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