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Why Iceland Sucks Socks

Our new employees don’t sock around — they tell it like it is.
Need to say something to someone about Iceland but don’t dare do it in person? Let our new employees do your dirty work for you.
The Iceland Socks are a rag-tag bunch of loudmouth sock puppets with questionable taste in clothing. They seem to […]

8 April 2008 – 7:31 | By Erik | Also posted in iceland, iceland socks | Comments (2)

Rebekka Guðleifsdóttir: Keeping Iceland Beautiful, One Picture at a Time

Stunning. Inspiring. Slightly wild… and the photos aren’t bad either.
In this second instalment of our continuing look at amazingly talented, attractive, self-taught female Icelandic photographers (yes, there’s more than one), we sat down with Rebekka Guðleifsdóttir, who has dominated Flickr by presenting Iceland, and herself, as art.

Rebekka Guðleifsdóttir is a bit uneasy about her success. She started taking pictures two years ago, […]

8 January 2008 – 12:19 | By Erik | Also posted in iceland, people, photography, Rebekka Guðleifsdóttir | Comments (3)

Steamy Little Secret

Psst. Read any good blogs lately (other than this one, of course)? We have. Alda Kalda writes ‘The Iceland Weather Report’ (which gives you far more than the weather), and will be helping us out in upcoming months.* We like her, and we think you will too.
The small town of Laugarvatn is home to one of the best-kept secrets […]

21 August 2007 – 17:48 | By Alda | Also posted in iceland, gymnophobia | Comments (2)

Something for April: The Mostly Björk Edition

A roundup of things to do in Reykjavík this April, as prepared by your sprightly editors.

Björk, Iceland. Iceland, Björk. Perhaps you’ve met? The singer comes home to kick off the world tour backing her new CD Volta April 9th. Worth it just to see what she’ll wear.
Make your hangover feel like community service. Get to […]

31 March 2007 – 16:55 | By Erik | Also posted in iceland, music, icelandic music, events, Festivals, Icelandic bands, concerts, clubs, nasa, Western Iceland | Comments (0)

Silfra: Probably the closest you’ll get to space-walking

Warning: diving in Silfra will give you several moments of clarity.
Iceland may not be the first country to enter your mind when you think about snorkeling or scuba diving — as we’re sure you do, like, all the time. It’s cold and the underwater life hardly rates high on the Attenborough-scale.
Still, there are some remarkable […]

24 January 2007 – 17:44 | By Margrét | Also posted in iceland, thingvellir, southern iceland, Adventure in Iceland, nudity, Silfra, scuba diving | Comments (0)

Something for the Weekend: Family Edition

A round-up of things to do in Reykjavík this weekend, as prepared by your family friendly editors

Wake up early Friday morning, since this will be the last day to see the McNaught Comet, visible between the horizon and the moon around twilight.
Too fab to just call it a sale, the concept/design store Kron Kron is […]

11 January 2007 – 18:33 | By Margrét | Also posted in iceland, reykjavik, 101, events, shopping, Icelandic clothes, kron kron | Comments (2)

Geysir: What Goes Up, Must Come Down

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 […]

10 November 2006 – 14:12 | By Annie | Also posted in iceland, southern iceland, photography | Comments (4)

Welcome to Iceland. Now, get on the bus

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 […]

2 November 2006 – 2:04 | By Margrét | Also posted in iceland, southern iceland, reykjavik, keflavík | Comments (0)

Helga Kvam was here

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 […]

18 October 2006 – 2:16 | By Valgeir | Also posted in iceland, people, northern iceland, Helga Kvam, photography | Comments (7)

The problem with the northern lights

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 […]

12 October 2006 – 1:40 | By Margrét | Also posted in iceland, northern lights | Comments (12)

Mývatn: Lake of Ice, Fire, Hidden People, Man’s Harmony with Nature, etc.

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 […]

4 October 2006 – 16:25 | By Margrét | Also posted in iceland, wellness, food, mývatn, northern iceland | Comments (1)

Now you see it, now you don’t

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 […]

23 September 2006 – 15:43 | By Valgeir | Also posted in hiking, eastern iceland | Comments (0)

Falling for you

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 […]

23 September 2006 – 15:29 | By Valgeir | Also posted in iceland, southern iceland, Adventure in Iceland, hiking | Comments (0)

See, here’s the Thing

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 […]

18 September 2006 – 2:52 | By Valgeir | Also posted in iceland, thingvellir, southern iceland | Comments (2)