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As a kid I thought airports were the most romantic places in the world. Now, while other airports destroy my jet-setting romanticism, Keflavík aptly revives it.
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Click on the picture to observe how to prepare a traditional Icelandic meal of roe and liver (hrogn og lifur). At this time of year, egg pouches are harvested from female fish, mainly cod and haddock, and sold in fish stores around the country along with the liver. The egg pouches may not look appetizing; just remember that caviar is fish eggs too.
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Fjallabyggd (“Mountain Settlement”) is a skier’s dream. Its slopes are perfect for slaloming and there are also tracks for telemark skiing. Winter sporting enthusiasts can also go ice skating or rent snowmobiles. In summer, Fjallabyggd turns into a paradise for hikers. Read this special promotion about one of Iceland’s best hidden gems.
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The Nordic House in Reykjavík will host Iceland’s first world music festival, “The World Music Safari Explosion,” next month, November 13-14, featuring world music acts from all of the Nordic countries.
The Nordic House. Photo by Páll Stefánsson.
“We want to show the variety of people and the culture in the Nordic countries and celebrate the cultural diversity,” says Thurídur Helga Kristjánsdóttir, project manager from the Nordic House, in a press release.
Participating artists are DJs Nad Jee (NO) and Katrine Suwalski (DK), Trans-Nations (DK), Dida (GRL), Helgi og Hljódfaeraleikararnir (IS), Another World (DK), Shava (FI), Punjabi Band (SE) and Skraa (AAL).
Sextet Another World combines jazz with west-African rhythms, while Norwegian DJ Nad Jee plays bhangra. Trans-Nations consists of Inga Thommesen from Denmark and Basiru Suso from Gambia.
Nordic folk music also makes a strong showing at the festival. Dida sings in Greenlandic and Skraa plays folk from the Aaland Islands. While Helgi og Hljódfaeraleikararnir perform Icelandic folk, Shava brings Bollywood bhangra to the Finnish language.
Offerings from Cuban, Asian and North African kitchens will also be available to accompany the world rhythms.
The goal is for the festival to become an annual event.
Ticket sales opened last week. Check midi.is for availability and visit the Nordic House’s website for further information about the festival.
Norwegian lawyer Morten Furuholmen is preparing a lawsuit against Icelandic authorities for what he calls an unfounded arrest of Leif Ivar Kristiansen, the leader of the Hells Angels motorcycle club in Norway, at Keflavík International Airport yesterday.
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The government of Iceland and the opposition in Iceland’s parliament reached an agreement yesterday on a discussion point to use in renegotiations with British and Dutch authorities on the Icesave obligations.
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Icelandair has submitted a request to the Ministries of Justice and Industry that operating casinos be legalized in Iceland. The company is interested in opening a casino at the Hilton Hotel Nordica on Sudurlandsbraut in Reykjavík.
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Icelandic stamp collector Magni R. Magnússon recently found a rare stamp sheet from Liberia portraying President of Iceland Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson in a collector’s store in Belgium. Liberian post authorities issued stamps with almost 200 world leaders in 2000.
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New subscribers to the quarterly Iceland Review magazine will receive the photography book Puffins, which contains a wealth of information about this colorful bird, as a gift. Additionally, all subscribers will enter a draw to win a trip to Iceland. Click here to subscribe to Iceland Review. The new issue will be out next week!
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When I first heard of the photographic book Legend by Fiann Paul, portraying people dressed in Viking-style in Icelandic landscapes, I imagined it would depict scenes from Norse mythology. However, the idea with the book is to tell a story of how “The Seeker” finds “The Legend” and it feels like a wishy-washy self-help book.
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Fresh back from Brazil, where she was one of 28 international judges at the ‘Cup of Excellence’ awards, Kaffitár founder and owner Adalheidur Hédinsdóttir sat down with Atlantica’s Mica Allan in Kaffitár’s Bankastraeti cafe to talk about her passion and delight: coffee.
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“Lucy” is a video and music installation by Dodda Maggý (1981), the 15th artist to exhibit in Reykjavík Art Museum’s D-gallery project in the Hafnarhús exhibition hall. In “Lucy” the artist explores the idea of the “acousmetre,” a film character portrayed only by voice, never in body, omniscient and ubiquitous.
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