3 Dec 2014According to mbl.is sources, star couple Beyoncé and Jay-Z enjoyed a swim in the Blue Lagoon yesterday. Staff at the Blue Lagoon are not allowed to divulge any information on their visitors so information on the visit is scarce.
2 Dec 2014The Oslo Christmas tree disaster was saved yesterday when Mayor Dagur B.Eggertsson felled a new, Icelandic tree at Rauðavatn. The tree given to Reykjavík by the city of Oslo was damaged in the storm. Eggertsson thanked the Reykjavík Forestry Association who donated the tree.
1 Dec 2014Forbes magazine has put Iceland at the top of the list of the ten coolest placest to visit in 2015. It seems that Beyoncé and Jay-Z agree as they are reported to be coming on an Iceland holiday in the next few days.
24 Nov 2014Police and rescue teams have been searching for Arkadiusz Pawel Maciag, who is on a visit to a friend in Iceland, since yesterday afternoon. Maciag, who is lost in the Reykjanes peninsula was reachable by phone yesterday. He could not state his location but said that he was cold and wet. Rescue teams believe he is alive due to data received by his mobile phone.
18 Nov 20149020 people have signed the online petition „Stop Julien Blanc!“ against a planned visit from the „date coach“ Julien Blanc to Iceland next summer. The petiton was launched today.
11 Nov 2014Photographer Ariko Inaoka met twins Erna and Hrefna when they were six years old on a visit to Iceland. Since then, she has visited Iceland every summer, documenting their progress from girlhood to adolescence as well as the special connection which the girls seem to have with each other as twins.
11 Nov 2014"The bananas are now fully grown and almost ripe," says Elías Óskarsson, gardener at Reykir near Hveragerði, south Iceland. Bananas have been grown in geothermically heated greenhouses in Iceland since the 1930's.
30 Oct 2014Do not buy the beer in 10/11 because it's not beer.
Heed these words of advice from Grísalappalísa, one of the brightest young stars on the Icelandic punk rock scene. (The supermarkets in Iceland sell non-alcoholic beer). In an interview with mbl.is they talked about their love of Can and Megas and reccommend a visit to the botanical gardens and a new vinyl store.
28 Oct 2014The specially curated Nordic Playlist will be located in Reykjavík during Iceland Airwaves. The website will host a bar on Laugavegur 91 where live music, live radio shows and a pop up bar will make for a cosy hang-out to discover Nordic music.
23 Oct 2014Finn Beales, a Welsh photographer who has accumulated more than 340,000 followers on Instagram thanks to his talent for capturing some of the world's most astounding scenery recently paid Iceland a visit. His stunning photographs have just been published in British newspaper The Daily Mail.
19 Sep 2014Just how big is the lava-field in Holuhraun? The size of 10 football fields? 100? Try something closer to the island of Manhattan. Here are some maps that put the Holuhraun lava-field in proportion.
17 Sep 2014The powers at play under Iceland don't seem to be satisfied with just getting the limelight in Holuhraun and around Bárðarbunga. On Monday, a mud-geyser named Gunnuhver showed a sharp increase in activity.
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