26 Apr 2023“There are still a lot of queries coming for the summer but we unfortunately just need to turn people away, because our situation is such that the summer is more or less sold out,” says Sara Ósk Rúnarsdóttir, receptionist at the Fosshotel Jökulsárlón.
6 Apr 2023Designations of origin are important for the protection of products, guaranteeing origin and linking consumers to primary production. Not all nations have been as good in securing designations of origin. For example, Italy has designations of origin for parma ham and parmesan cheese, Greece for feta cheese and France for champagne and camembert cheese. Only producers in certain areas referred by designations of origin may label their packaging with the name.
24 Mar 2023The West Iceland Marketing Office has been working in cooperation with Hvalfjörður Municipality to boost infrastructure at the waterfall Glymur where a fatal accident occurred last Wednesday.
13 Mar 2023Prime Minister Katrín Jakobsdóttir and Minister of Foreign Affairs Þórdís Kolbrún Reykfjörð Gylfadóttir will head towards Ukraine today to meet with the government.
25 Jan 2023Two hundred and eighty tons of pillar rock are used for the luxurious Torfhús Retreat accommodation in the land of Einholt in Bishopstungur. The very popular hot tubs by all the guesthouses are built with the pillar rocks. All the guesthouses are built in the old fashioned way of Icelandic farms with turf roofs.
15 Jan 2023When Danish writer and journalist Lise Nørgaard, who passed at the beginning of the year, made a long-awaited visit to Iceland at the invitation of the Danish ambassador, it would be a shame to say that she received a generous welcome. This respectable older woman was taken for a thorough drug check at customs. She was severely insulted, and flew home immediately with the next plane.
9 Jan 2023There has been very bad weather in the West Fjords this weekend and yesterday, the West Fjords police announced the decision to close the road between Ísafjörður and Súðavík last night due to the risk of avalanches and a little later the police announced that Flateyrarvegur in Önundarfjörður was also closed at 20 pm last night for the same reason.
29 Nov 2022The government plans to increase funding for law enforcement by ISK 2.5 billion from the previously reported budget, which is more increase than has been dedicated to law enforcement for years. The biggest change is the increased contribution to the police, which will amount to ISK 1.4 billion, if the parliament agrees to the proposals.
28 Nov 2022Þórdís Kolbrún Reykfjörð Gylfadóttir Iceland’s Minister of Foreign Affairs is now in Kiev, tha capital of Ukraine to show support for the Ukranian nation. She is in a group of the Prime Ministers of Scandinavia and the Baltic Countries.
27 Nov 2022There was a genuine feeling of joy when the lights of the Oslo tree were turned on at Austurturvöllur today, but the annual event is a mark of the friendship between Oslo in Norway and Reykjavík. It was the 9-year-old Sanders Snær Sigurðsson to assist Mayor Dagur B. Eggertsson to tend the lights on the tree.
15 Nov 2022Sustainable Icelandic fishing and the full use of marine fishing products was the main topic of the news analysis show Nous, les Européens, or We Europeans that was shown in France earlier this month on the television channel France 2.
28 Oct 2022The President of Iceland Guðni Th. Jóhannesson and First Lady Eliza Reid are expected to arrive late tonight after an official visit to Slovakia. Guðni says that the visit has been extremely successful and that it will strengthen the bond between te countries, especially when it comes to cooperation in the fields of geothermal energy, research and innovation.
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