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Not that long ago I picked up a foreign colleague at the airport and noticed that he didn’t like my car, a big 4x4 SUV.
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THE YULETIDE LADS
On Christmas night itself
January
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NEW! New Year’s Eve
Click on the picture to catch a glimpse of the fireworks spectacle on New Year’s Eve in Iceland’s northern capital of Akureyri, where locals decided to forget about the crisis while welcoming the New Year with a blast as usual. Although fireworks sales dropped compared to 2007, people still bought enough explosives to light up the black winter sky.
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Located just 40 minutes by car and six minutes from Keflavík International Airport, Sandgerdi (“Sandy Hedge”) is a growing town of 1,700 with a storied history and loads to see. Read this special promotion about the hidden secrets of one of Iceland's most charming seaside villages.
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BUSINESS PROFILE
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January
06
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Iceland’s Kaupthing Bank Sues British Authorities
The resolution committee of the old Kaupthing Bank, which has now been nationalized, has decided to sue British authorities with support from the Icelandic state for seizing Kaupthing’s subsidiary in the UK in October 2008.
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January
06
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More than 100 People Lost their Jobs on January 1
The employees of the Directorate of Labor have been busy since the beginning of the New Year. More than 100 people lost their jobs on January 1 and have been registering themselves as unemployed.
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January
06
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Teenager Fires Shot through Wall of Kindergarten
A 16-year-old boy was arrested in Reykjavík on Friday night, carrying a loaded pistol. Earlier that night, the boy had met with his friend outside Jörfi kindergarten and fired a shot through the wall of the building.
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January
06
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Social Democrat MP Joins Progressive Party
Gudmundur Steingrímsson, a substitute MP for the Social Democrats and assistant of former Mayor of Reykjavík Dagur B. Eggertsson, has decided to leave the party and join the Progressive Party instead.
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January
06
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Former Glitnir CEO Repays ISK 370 Million
Bjarni Ármannsson, former CEO of Glitnir Bank, revealed yesterday that he had repaid ISK 370 million from his termination agreement to Glitnir’s resolution committee after the collapse of Iceland’s banking system.
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January
06
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EU Membership Would Affect Farming in Iceland
Agriculture in Iceland would undergo extensive changes if Iceland would join the European Union, although at the same time the price of food products would drop because of cancellation of tariffs on foods.
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Iceland Review is offering a special holiday discount of the products in its webstore. The highland handbook Adventure in Iceland can currently be bought for only USD 20 (EUR 17, GBP 13), the classic songs of Icelandic opera singers Thóra and Björn are available for USD 12 (EUR 11, GBP 9), as is the CD Poems are Good to Eat, featuring an Icelandic musical. Click here to order.
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For a limited time only, Iceland Review is offering new subscribers to the magazine a free copy of the recipe book Northern Delights: Reykjavík Cuisine by Erna Kaaber. The book contains an overview of Reykjavík’s finest restaurants and a wealth of mouth-watering recipes, including photographs of Iceland’s amazingly versatile landscape. Click here to subscribe.
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REVIEWS
January
05
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Nothing New from Old Danish: Ný dönsk – Turninn
Ný dönsk (“New Danish”) are veterans in the Icelandic pop scene, their trademark being the interplay between the two front men, Björn Jörundur and Daníel Ágúst. After going their separate ways for a while, they reunited to release Turninn, the first Ný dönsk album since 2001 and the first with Daníel Ágúst in 15 years. Sadly though, it doesn’t live up to expectations.
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I’m driving against the morning commuter rush on my way out to the suburbs to meet 28-year-old Ingunn Pétursdóttir, one of 12 Icelandic women (and growing) banded together by an uncommon thread: trucks. They are not truck dispatchers, truck-stop waitresses, or truckers’ girlfriends. They are truckers.
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January
05
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Event of the Week: The Making of a Nation
This week discover what the Icelandic nation is made of through the National Museum permanent exhibition “The Making of a Nation – Heritage and History in Iceland.” The exhibition includes some 2,000 objects dating from the Settlement to the present day as well as multi-media displays and telephone connections with the past.
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