These people can make you look cool, as long as you don’t interfere.
Wandering around 101 Reykjavík on Friday evenings, you are more than likely to come across a few shellshocked trendsetters with obscenely trendy, über half-a-haircut-mullet hairdos. They have most probably been to see the Hairdoctor Jón Atli (the most glamorous hairstylist since Warren Beatty) […]
A roundup of things to do in Reykjavík this weekend, prepared by your sweet, yet sassy, editors.
For all you lovers of that big church on the hill, this weekend there are 20 years since it was opened. Photographs of the church throughout its 50+ year building process are on display. Nearer my God, to thee.
Thursday […]
16 November 2006 – 14:38
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By Margrét
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Also posted in nightlife, reykjavik, 101, music, icelandic music, events, food, Icelandic bands, shopping, concerts, clubs, kolaportið, sugarcubes
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The original geyser is not all it’s cracked up to be.
The rotten egg smell that steams out of geothermal Icelandic water is just something you get used to after a while. In fact, you may even begin to enjoy it. If so, head over to Geysir, where Strokkur erupts every eight minutes, impeccably timed with […]
I see you baby, shaking that ass
Dance the somewhat nippy winter weather away, Friday start your evening somewhere very hot indeed. The Icelandic Bellydance Championships are held at Ýmishúsið and begin at 8pm. a mere 1800isk to see 19 ladies (including one of our fabulous editors) flick their hips in a way which ensures you’ll […]
9 November 2006 – 14:40
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By kitty
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Also posted in nightlife, Adventure in Iceland, drinking, reykjavik, Bars in Iceland, 101, music, icelandic music, events, food, DJs, Icelandic bands, designers, Icelandic clothes, Jón Sæmundur, concerts, clubs
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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 […]
Iceland wakes up again.
Starting this Friday, the Young Art Festival, organized by Hitt Húsið, a cultural centre for “young people.” (Well, 17-25 year-olds. After that you’re old, apparently.) The first night, at Tjarnarbíó, is dedicated to students of The Icelandic Academy of Arts, and the fun starts at nine. Watch out for the street performers.
Later […]
2 November 2006 – 13:07
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By Margrét
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Also posted in nightlife, drinking, reykjavik, Bars in Iceland, 101, music, icelandic music, events, Visual Arts, northern iceland, Icelandic bands, concerts, clubs, mr silla
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Everything you always wanted to know about your first 45 minutes in Iceland.
Being a part of the international jet set is so hard.
Especially since that weekend in Berlin, after which our bosses at Iceland Express closed our expense account, and we keep finding ourselves onboard the Flybus all the time. (Farewell, sweet limo drivers!)
Still, listening […]
Part 2: Kókómjólk.
After years of research, your humble editors have concluded that Kókómjólk is probably the best nonprescription hangover cure with a picture of a striped, muscular cat on it.
What’s this Kókómjólk, you ask? Well, it’s Iceland’s premier chocolatey milky drink. In fact, it’s Iceland’s only chocolately milky drink.
Which is probably why, having nothing else […]
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 […]
A roundup of things to do in Reykjavík this weekend, prepared by your very, very tired editors.
The city is fairly quiet this weekend, and in recovery after that festival thing. Maybe this would be a good chance to chillax with it and soak a bit in one of those lovely warm swimming pools. We know […]
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 […]
Official Hangover Day.
Thankfully, the official schedule has almost nothing in store for us today, but if you’re still alive, there are some off-venue gigs.
In the highly unlikely event that you’re feel fresh, you could start at The Naked Ape, a colourful design store at the corner where Skólavörðustígur meets Laugavegur. There you can see a […]
22 October 2006 – 16:26
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By Margrét
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Also posted in drinking, reykjavik, Bars in Iceland, 101, icelandic music, events, Festivals, DJs, Icelandic bands, concerts, iceland airwaves
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At Gaukurinn, the all-star band Sometime starts at 22.15. You know, provided the drummer holds his drink.
At midnight in Iðnó, the old theatre by the lake, Stórsveit Nix Noltes (Nick Nolte’s Big Band) will make you sweat like a gypsy.
Two options at 01.00. Either go back to Gaukurinn to see the Hairdoctor, a band of […]
21 October 2006 – 14:15
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By Margrét
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Also posted in drummers, nightlife, drinking, reykjavik, Bars in Iceland, 101, icelandic music, DJs, Icelandic bands, concerts, clubs, iceland airwaves
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Here we go again.
So, by now you know where the Reykjavik Art Museum is, eh? Well, we’ll start there. At 20.45 Benni Hemm Hemm starts playing with his big band of 18 people. Get your money’s worth.
Two options for 22.15 and 23.00. First choice: stay at the Art Museum. First up (assuming that Kraftwerk’s lawyers […]
20 October 2006 – 16:02
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By Margrét
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Also posted in nightlife, drinking, Bars in Iceland, 101, music, events, Festivals, DJs, Icelandic bands, jeff who?, concerts, clubs, iceland airwaves
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Tonight starts at 19.00 with Ske at the Reykjavík Art Museum. They go through front(wo)men faster than other bands go through groupies. Everyone is excited to see their line-up this year.
For you cutie pie lovers, Skakkamanage and Þórir are playing at Gaukurinn, back to back. Skakkamanage starts at 20.45 and Þórir at 21.30. Decide for […]
19 October 2006 – 18:50
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By Margrét
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Also posted in nightlife, reykjavik, Bars in Iceland, 101, icelandic music, Festivals, Reykjavík Art Museum, Icelandic bands, concerts, Skakkamanage, clubs, iceland airwaves
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Yeah, yeah. Iceland Airwaves, blah, blah, blah. We get it. Just check their website, ok?
On Saturday, check out the noon-to-midnight off-venue Airwaves concert at Hljómalind on Laugavegur. Pardon us while we abuse our position and encourage you to check out super-cutie Mr. Silla (pictured above, pretending to be tough) and her new best friend, Mongoose, […]
19 October 2006 – 18:02
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By kitty
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Also posted in nightlife, reykjavik, 101, icelandic music, events, Visual Arts, Festivals, Icelandic bands, concerts, iceland airwaves, mr silla
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Cynic Guru play poppy, alternative rock at Gaukurinn at 20.15 (that’s a quarter past eight for civilians and Brits). You may be interested to hear that frontman Roland Hartwell plays the violin with the Iceland Symphony Orchestra. He also plays guitar with the band. And sings. Like the old lady said to the other old […]
18 October 2006 – 18:01
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By Margrét
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Also posted in drummers, nightlife, drinking, reykjavik, Bars in Iceland, 101, icelandic music, events, Festivals, Icelandic bands, concerts, clubs, iceland airwaves
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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 […]
A round up of things to do in Reykjavík this weekend, prepared by your good-looking and oh-so culturally minded editors.
He’s back! Former General Secretary of the Soviet Communist Party, Nobel Peace Prize winner, and Pizza Hut fan, Mikhail Gorbachev is back in Iceland this weekend. No Ronald Reagan this time, just a lot of people […]
12 October 2006 – 13:32
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By valgeir
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Also posted in nightlife, Bars in Iceland, 101, icelandic music, events, Iceland Symphony Orchestra, Icelandic bands, concerts, Iceland Dance Company, Jón Leifs, Skakkamanage, Reykjavík City Theatre
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Okay, listen. We’re really, really sorry, but we have to tell you something. The northern lights are not really on all the time.
According to the dictionary, aurora borealis, a.k.a. the northern lights, is a “luminous display of various forms and colours seen in the night sky, without the aid of alcohol.” (Okay, we made that […]
Death gets seriously warmed up as artist slash designer Jón Sæmundur — a.k.a. Nonni — opens Liborius.
It was a black day, literally, for fashionable neo-goths when the Dead Store closed its doors in Reykjavík a few months ago. More Addams’ Family than the Grateful Dead, Nonnabúð (as it was called in Icelandic) was filled to […]
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, […]
Is it Friday already?
The National Theatre is doing its best to prepare us, and all you wannabe Scandinavians, for a long, dark and depressing winter with its fun, fun, fun version of Ibsen’s Peer Gynt (surprisingly not called Peer Gyntson but Pétur Gautur). They’ll be showing it at The Barbican in London in February, but […]
6 October 2006 – 9:02
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By Margrét
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Also posted in nightlife, reykjavik, Bars in Iceland, 101, music, events, Visual Arts, Festivals, Reykjavík International Film Festival, DJs, National Theatre, Reykjavík Art Museum, northern lights
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Ok — of Midges, actually.
Right. We’ll be the first to admit that the name isn’t very appealing, but then again, back when our Viking ancestors were still roaming the land, having those ridiculous feuds and thinking up names for places, they probably weren’t too concerned about how they would play in tourist brochures a thousand […]
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 — […]
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 […]
Kaffibarinn is the granddaddy of Reykjavík bars/clubs.
Featured prominently in a gazillion guidebooks and magazine articles over the years, Kaffibarinn is probably the best known bar in the universe Reykjavík.
Founded back in the early nineties by some really, really fun people whose names escape us, this Reykjavík institution featured prominently in a little film called 101 […]
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 […]
