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Icebreaker Update: On sale now, a special offer on return flights to Iceland from Copenhagen and London
Routes:
To Iceland and back, from Copenhagen and London Stansted.
Travel Period:
1 February to 31 May 2007
Booking Period:
1 to 8 15 February 2007
Prices on return flights, including taxes and charges:
From London for £150,
From Copenhagen for DKK 1,599.
Don’t forget:
Selected dates and limited […]
We interrupt our regularly scheduled programming to look for a new editor for our non-Icelandic websites.
The job involves the following:
Editing this blog
Writing our email newsletter in English
Writing and editing content for icelandexpress.com, including booking confirmations and reminder emails
Maintaining and overseeing translations for our other international sites in Danish, German, Swedish, and other languages
Occasional offline writing, […]
Iceland Express celebrates its fourth anniversary by offering lots and lots of seats to and from Iceland, from £45 / €65 / DKK 519, one-way, including taxes and charges.
Open for Sale:
From Wednesday 10 January, 13.00 CET (that’s 12 o’clock British Time).
Travel Period:
10 January to 30 March 2007.
Routes:
To Iceland and back, from Berlin, Copenhagen, Friedrichshafen and […]
Did you just miss the biggest fireworks display in the world?
According to Iceland Review, Icelanders just blew up one thousands tons of fireworks this New Year’s Eve, worth about €16 million.
In case you missed it, check this out.
More fireworks videos here, here and here. Also lots of great fireworks photos on Flickr
In which we celebrate the original Icelandic version of that jolly old Coke-drinking elf.
If countries get the Santa Claus they deserve, you might be forgiven for wondering what we in Iceland did to deserve ours.
While other countries have a jolly old Coke-sponsored fat guy with a penchant for gift giving and flying reindeers, we Icelanders […]
Icebreaker Update: Return flights to Iceland from Berlin, Copenhagen and London, from €199 / £139 / DDK 1,595
Hear ye, hear ye: Announcing a special Icebreaker offer on return flights with Iceland Express to Reykjavík from selected European cities.
Routes:
To Iceland and back, from Berlin Schönefeld, Copenhagen and London Stansted.
Travel Period:
5 January to 20 March 2007
Booking Period:
15 […]
A round-up of things to do in Reykjavík this weekend, as prepared by your unusually suspicious editors.
Poetry might be dead, but somebody didn’t get the memo. The cool cats of Nýhil will be reading, like, poetry, between acts at Grand rokk tonight. The usual suspects are playing: Mr. Silla & Mongoose, Pétur Ben, Reykjavik! and […]
We’re slashing prices on flights to Iceland from our German destinations, with lots and lots of seats from €99, £69, or DKK 750, one-way, including taxes and charges.
Open for Sale:
From Monday 6 November, 10.00 CET
(that’s 9am British Time), for five days.
Travel Period:
6 November to 20 December 2006.
Routes:
To Iceland and back, from Berlin Schönefeld and Frankfurt […]
At the best little record store in Reykjavík, indie doesn’t necessarily mean small t-shirts. Just great coffee, impeccable manners, and the occasional autographed Lionel Ritchie album.
If you’re looking for some fine Icelandic music, a selection of Icelandic presidential portraits, some damn fine coffee, or simply capitalism with a human face, go to directly to the […]
Introducing six more places from which to get to Reykjavík, fast and cheap.
From 14 CET (1pm British Time) today, Tuesday 24 October, Iceland Express is opening for sale flights to Iceland from fourteen places in Europe next summer.
That’s right — you’ll be able to fly to Iceland from London Stansted in the UK, Copenhagen and […]
From London to Iceland—and back—for £144 with our new and improved Icebreaker.
We interrupt our programme for this short commercial break:
On sale from today, our new Icebreaker fares from London Stansted to Reykjavík.
What is it, you ask? Well, the Icebreaker is a fixed-price return flight thing where you get a return flight from London to Reykjavík […]
The international hipster community prepares for a difficult weekend by donning wristbands, as the most important music festival in the solar system begins in Reykjavík tonight.
Unless you’ve had more important things to think about, you’ll know that the annual Iceland Airwaves music festival starts in Reykjavík today, and continues through to Sunday.
Beginning in 1999, what […]
Meet Helga Kvam, a one–woman, one–camera tourist board.
If you’re looking for pictures of Iceland on Flickr, chances are that sooner than later you’ll run into Helga Kvam, a music teacher living in Svalbarðsströnd, north of Akureyri.
Why? Because she takes lots and lots of stunningly beautiful photos of Iceland.
And we’re not the only ones noticing. From […]
Attention shoppers: Iceland Express is releasing 20,000 seats to and from Iceland, for £69 (or €99) including taxes and charges.
On sale from: Tuesday, 17 October, 14 CET (that’s 1 pm British Time), for three days.
Flight Period:
18 October to 30 November 2006
All Iceland Express Routes:
To Iceland and back, from London Stansted, Copenhagen, Berlin Schönefeld, Frankfurt Hahn […]
From 14 CET (1 pm British Time) tomorrow, Monday, Iceland Express is offering 2,990 seats to and from Iceland, from 25 pounds (35 euros) plus taxes and charges.
On sale from: Monday, 9 October, 12.00 (14 CET, 1 pm British Time)
Flight Period:
10 October to 15 December 2006
Routes:
All Iceland Express routes.
Price:
GBP 25, EUR 35, DKK 255, […]
Some say skyr is the new tiramisu. We say it’s traditional food that might actually be edible.
Thick enough to stand a spoon in, skyr is a protein–filled dairy product, sort of like yogurt (except not really). What they don’t tell you, is that it’s often full of sugar as well, depending on the flavour.
And there […]
Here is a pretty long clip we found of quartet Amiina (formerly know as Amina) performing on Icelandic TV about a year ago. Mostly music, but also some talk in Icelandic.
If you happen to be in London on 18 October, you can catch them at the Arts Theatre [map]. They’ll also be in Paris, Brussels […]
A roundup of things to do in Reykjavík this weekend, prepared by your lovely and very well connected editors.
Krzyztof Penderecki conducts the Iceland Symphony Orchestra tonight, playing Beethoven and himself, with soloist Florian Uhlig. Play the funky music, Krzyztof.
The Reykjavik Jazz Festival is in full, er, swing. If you can bear to wake up before […]
Courtesy of an Icelandic author, some of the biggest stars in the world can be seen in Reykjavík on Thursday night.
For years, Andri Snær Magnason has been asking Reykjavík city authorities to turn off the street lights for a few hours. If all goes well, this Thursday night he’ll finally get his way.
Andri Snær — […]
Here’s a golden oldie for you, múm’s Ballad of the Broken Birdie Records (ruxpin remix II).
múm: Official Site | Fansite | MySpace | Last.fm
At Kárahnjúkar they give a dam.
According to some tree-hugging hippies, the twin mountains of Kárahnjúkar in the north-east of Iceland are some of the most beautiful examples of the Icelandic Highlands.
However, according to some cold-blooded technocrats, they are also the best place for an absolutely massive dam project.
The technocrats are winning. The dam project […]
At 196 metres, we think Iceland’s highest waterfall should get some more respect.
Once upon a time, Glymur, the highest waterfall in Iceland, was a pretty popular destination. Not surprisingly, given that it takes less than an hour to drive from Reykjavík to the bottom of Hvalfjörður where you start your hike.
But guess what. Something happened […]
Thingvellir, the site of Iceland’s ancient parliament, is where the Thing-Men used to hang out at the Law Rock. And no, we’re not talking about action heroes or comic books.
We can’t think of a better subject for the second post of this blog on matters Icelandic than the place where some of the most […]
