24 Jul 2016Few that travel around the Iceland venture on road 711 in North Iceland, around Vatnsnes peninsula. This 90 km detour from the ring road offers a lot more than meets the eye. There are shores with seals, high stacks of basalt, a volcanic plug that is a presumed fortress and much more. All this in a typical Icelandic rural area with farms and a narrow gravel road occasionally blocked by a tractor.
20 Jul 2016This Sunday, the Árbær Open Air Museum will be giving you the chance to learn about Icelandic haymaking traditions and try your hand at it yourself.
19 Jul 2016An Icelandic coast guard helicopter has been dispatched to Iceland’s West Fjords in search of polar bear cubs potentially belonging to the animal shot and killed in North Iceland at the weekend.
18 Jul 2016The decision to shoot and kill a polar bear which appeared in Iceland on Saturday night conformed to official procedure and was an “easy decision” for police to take, it has emerged.
17 Jul 2016An adolescent female polar bear which had found its way to North Iceland and got within 500 metres of an inhabited farm was shot and killed late last night.
15 Jul 2016Next Thursday sees the tenth annual Great Seal Count in Iceland and the Icelandic Seal Centre are looking for volunteers to take part in the 2016 operation.
14 Jul 2016The man whose body was found last night after falling into a river in South Iceland and being dragged under dense ice and snow was a French national born in 1989.
13 Jul 2016A French tourist who was carried under a massive snow-drift after falling into a river in South Iceland yesterday evening has yet to be found.
6 Jul 2016Marco Evaristti, the Chilean artist who controversially dyed Iceland’s iconic Strokkur hot spring pink last April, has been acquitted of criminal charges by an Icelandic court.
