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Kerið in Grímsnes is a volcanic crater and the new parking spaces will be a testament to that by using the red gravel found in this area as a building material.

Bright red new parking spaces at Kerið

16 Jun 2023 The number of parking spaces at Kerið in Grímsnes has doubled to meet demand, but Kerið is a popular tourist destination, not too far from the city of Reykjavik. Óskar Magnússon, one of the operators of Kerið, says the project is also improving the safety of tourists who visit Kerið.

The walrus is on the beach in Álftanes and seems to be resting.

Asking people to stay away from the walrus

8 Jun 2023 A walrus now lies on the beach in Álftanes. The walrus has been on the beach for several hours, but people are asked not to come to the area and to go no closer than a hundred feet.

Five reasons to fall in love with Reykjavík

4 Jun 2023 As a guest reporter for Iceland Monitor, Merle came from Germany to Reykjavík and immediately fell in love with the city. Here´s her Top Five things about the capital of Iceland.

Reykjavik Hiking Festival will be held for the third time from May 30-June 3.

Great way to meet new people

29 May 2023 The Reykjavík Hiking Festival will be held for the third time on May 30-June 3. The public health festival boasts a wide variety of walks around and around the capital area, but this year the festival will be in a slightly different format than before.

The European Council Summit in pictures

18 May 2023

South Iceland more or less fully booked

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.

Big news for Icelandic lamb

6 Apr 2023 Designations 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.

The Rescue team at Glymur last Wednesday.

Dangerous route and needs more oversight

24 Mar 2023 The 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.

Iceland's Prime Minister, Katrín Jakobsdóttir.

The Prime Minister and the Minister of Foreign Affairs going to Ukraine

13 Mar 2023 Prime Minister Katrín Jakobsdóttir and Minister of Foreign Affairs Þórdís Kolbrún Reykfjörð Gylfadóttir will head towards Ukraine today to meet with the government.

You have to have a very good eye for detail when restoring old antique gems.

Found manuscript pieces over five centuries of age

4 Mar 2023 “I lost my breath for a while, staring at the manuscript pieces,” says the antique book collector Eyþór Guðmundsson.

Þórdís Kolbrún R. Gylfadóttir, Minister for Foreign Affairs, Dagur B. Eggertsson, mayor of Reykjavik,
Benedikt Erlingsson, film director and actor and Sigridur Mogensen, Director at the Federation of Icelandic Industries partook in the panel discussions that will be aired on BBC's website this Saturday.

Should Russians be granted asylum?

8 Feb 2023 "Should Russians fleeing Russia because of the governance of President Vladimir Putin of Russia be granted asylum here?"

The 25 houses are built in the style of the old Icelandic farm.

280 tons of pillar rocks used for the hot tubs of Torfhús Retreat

25 Jan 2023 Two 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.

Lise Nørgaard in her much more successful second visit to Iceland.

Took the next flight back after a thorough drug check in customs

15 Jan 2023 When 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.

Súðavíkurhlíð, the road between Súðavík and Ísafjörður was closed yesterday due to increased danger of avalanches.

Roads closed last in the West fjords last night due to increased risk of avalanches

9 Jan 2023 There 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.

Reykjavík comes out on top when it comes to the safest cities to visit in the world.

Reykjavik the safest city for tourists

11 Dec 2022 Reykjavík is the safest city for tourists to visit according to the findings of the Berkshire Hathaway Travel Protection Insurance Company.