11 Dec 2015The Icelandic Yule Lads, or jólasveinar as we call them in Icelandic are a bunch of strange characters who are either nine, or more popularly thirteen and are the sons of the trolls Grýla and Leppalúði. According to folklore they descend from the mountains one by one, starting with the first, Stekkjastaur, tomorrow morning.
11 Dec 2015Eleven-year-old Kári Pálsson has become somewhat of a local hero in Vesturbær, the west part of Reykjavik. Last summer he picked up all rubbish in the area and mowed lawns and this winter he's been shovelling snow to help people.
10 Dec 2015There's a lot of public outcry in Iceland today following reports that an Albanian family with two young children, one of them suffering from long term illness, were fetched by police at 3 am, taken to the airport and deported.
1 Dec 2015Art student Almar, whose installation piece of residing naked in a transparent box at the Iceland Academy of the Arts for a week raised more than a few eyebrows yesterday with the ubiquitous outcry of:is it art? Our videographer came to check up on Almar today during the storm to see how he was doing.
29 Nov 2015The annual tradition of lighting the Oslo tree, a Christmas tree donated by the city of Oslo to the city of Reykjavik, took place this afternoon. Over a thousand people, including a great number of young children enjoyed the festive spirit on the first Sunday of Advent.
28 Nov 2015Loftleiðir Icelandic has in recent weeks been operating charter flights to the Antarctic and is one the few airline’s in the world to operate on all seven continents simultaneously.
26 Nov 2015Reykjavik’s traditional Christmas tree – known among Icelanders as the ‘Oslo tree’ since it is gifted by Oslo City Council – is installed annually in Reykjavik’s Parliament Square (‘Austurvöllur’).
23 Nov 2015Tourists to visit Þríhnjúkagigur, a dormant 700 foot deep volcanic crater not far from Reykjavik have now amounted to over ten thousand people.
20 Nov 2015Solla Eiríksdóttir, otherwise known as Solla, owner of the famous Gló raw food restaurants, has put her summer cottage up for sale. It's located at Meðalfellsvatn near Reykjavik.
17 Nov 2015Slovak radio broadcaster and journalist and friend of Iceland Juraj Kušnierik died last Friday at the age of 51, after suffering a heart attack at the Iceland Airwaves music festival.
16 Nov 2015Anyone planning to travel around Iceland today or tomorrow is advised to check the weather forecast carefully as well as updates from the Iceland Road Administration as storms are predicted in mountain roads in both North and East Iceland.
6 Nov 2015"There's no elf power. Iceland is a real place, with real waterfalls and real nature," said writer and activist Andri Snær Magnússon at a press conference with Icelandic musician Björk Guðmundsdóttir today.
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