Category Archives: shopping

Get a Taste of Iceland

This is an appetiser, but you better believe that the main course is far more filling!

13 February 2008 – 11:41 | By Erik | Also posted in iceland, Bars in Iceland, 101, swimming pools | Comments (0)

Welcome to Our ‘Hood: Austurvöllur

It’s hip to be square.
Every city has a centre; a hub around which all activities seem to spin. Austurvöllur has served as Reykjavík’s heart since the first settler, Ingólfur Arnarson, established his farm just around the corner (two doors down from the strip club… next to the Subway restaurant).
Called the “east field” in honour of where Arnarson’s […]

25 September 2007 – 15:15 | By Erik | Also posted in iceland, nightlife, Bars in Iceland, 101, food, skyr, clubs, kókómjólk, nasa, nudity, Our 'Hood | Comments (1)

Welcome to Our ‘Hood: Skólavörðustígur

If Laugarvegur is Reykjavík’s High Street, then Skólavörðustígur is as close as Iceland gets to Portobello Road.
In this soon-to-be recurring feature, we’ll give you an insider’s look at places we live and like. If you need to find the closest hotel to the Blue Lagoon, get a guide book. If you want to see locals in their natural […]

10 July 2007 – 10:49 | By Erik | Also posted in iceland, reykjavik, 101, 12 tónar, Our 'Hood | Comments (3)

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, nature, reykjavik, 101, events, Icelandic clothes, kron kron | Comments (2)

Wanted: Genuine Icelandic Grandmothers

There’s no point in wearing a traditional Icelandic jumper unless you can say, “What, this old thing? Oh, my genuine Icelandic grandmother knitted it for me years ago. Of course, I’ve had it since before they were in fashion.”
It may look like an unwanted Christmas gift to your foreign eye, but here in Iceland the […]

4 December 2006 – 21:54 | By Annie | Also posted in iceland, designers, Icelandic clothes, products, icelandic sweaters | Comments (4)

Gallerí Gel: The (Hair)doctor will see you now

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) […]

17 November 2006 – 14:38 | By kitty | Also posted in iceland, nightlife, 101, icelandic music, Visual Arts, DJs, sirkus, hairdoctor | Comments (1)

Something for the Weekend: The Sugarcoated Edition

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 | By Margrét | Also posted in iceland, nightlife, reykjavik, 101, music, icelandic music, events, food, Icelandic bands, concerts, clubs, kolaportið, sugarcubes | Comments (0)

12 Tónar: The nicest men in Icelandic show business

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 […]

27 October 2006 – 16:01 | By valgeir | Also posted in iceland, 101, icelandic music, people, Icelandic bands, concerts, 12 tónar | Comments (1)

Here’s Nonni!

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 […]