14 Jul 2015One of the best ways to get to know 18th to 19th century Iceland is to visit Árbær Museum (Icelandic: Árbæjarsafn). It is an open air museum with many old houses that form a village, and an old farm.
7 Jul 2015Are you planning to plunge into any of Iceland's warm natural pools this summer and wondering what to wear? Take inspiration from photographer and instagram style blogger Meredith Adelaide.
7 Jul 2015Harrison Schmitt, one of the twelve Apollo astronauts to have walked on the Moon, is currently visiting Iceland – 48 years after his first visit to the country to train for his historic Moon mission.
6 Jul 2015Stundin reported this morning that the owners of the buildings housing three popular concert and club venues will be replacing them with tourist shops. This report angered many and a protest has been organised on Facebook.
3 Jul 2015The All Tomorrow's Parties festival in Ásbrú, Keflavík, took off last night with a loud bang with performances by festival headliners Iggy Pop and Public Enemy.
30 Jun 2015The Marco Polo, Hanseatic, Ocean Diamond, Nautica and Celebrity Eclipse carry a combined total of 4-5,000 passengers and 2,218 crew members.
25 Jun 2015Örninn TREK reached the goal first in the WOW Cyclothon team contest. The cycliists in the team had managed to cycle around Iceland in 36 hours and 51 minutes.
22 Jun 2015Information contained in documents published by WikiLeaks indicating that the Icelandic President to keen to foster closer ties with Saudi Arabia has been rejected as “incomprehensible inaccuracies”.
18 Jun 2015Former Prime Minister of Ukraine, Yulia Tymoshenko, visited Iceland on Tuesday to explore the opportunities for her country in the field of renewable energy.
15 Jun 2015Award winning raw food chef Solla Eiríksdóttir who is also the owner of the ever popular Gló restaurant chain, has started a new culinary blog in Icelandic with her daughter Hildur. They've shared a recipe using Icelandic garden weeds to make a delicious, aromatic coffee.
14 Jun 2015One suit, 21 days across Iceland through sun, rain, wind, dust and snow. Conceptual artist Joshua-Michéle Ross and collaborator Yvette Molina are halfway through their odyssey. Iceland Monitor caught up with Josh to check up on his progress.
11 Jun 2015The Speaker of the House of the Icelandic Parliament (‘Alþingi’), Einar K. Guðfinnsson, met yesterday with Ma Zhongping, Chairman for the Shaanxi Province at the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference.
11 Jun 2015Forget the love locks on Paris' Pont des Arts, in Iceland the latest tourist trend is piling up cairns in Þingvellir national park to mark their visit. This trend is much to the chagrin of park wardens who say they count thousands in the nature reserve.
11 Jun 2015Italian mathematician and explorer Giancarlo Gianazza believes that he has found hidden clues in Dante's Divine Comedy by Dante that the Holy Grail is in Iceland. Gianazza and his team are now on Kjölur in the highlands searching for this coveted relic, also known as the cup of Christ.
10 Jun 2015The President of Iceland, Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson, is currently on a four-day official visit to Canada. On the agenda is international cooperation, trade and historical links between the countries.
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