Some things I can’t see or understand. Not even with my FUJI camera.
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Prime Minister of Iceland Jóhanna Sigurdardóttir travels to Canada today. She will travel around Canada and the US until Monday and participate in the Icelandic Festivals held by the Icelandic communities in both countries.
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Click on the picture to watch this audio slideshow about bird watching at Óshólmar, an area at the mouth of Eyjafjardará river just outside Akureyri in north Iceland, the largest Icelandic town outside the capital region. Not many tourists know about this attraction, which is perfect for a walk in the sun.
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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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Icelandic fishing company Brim hf. has invested in a fish factory in Reykjavík and plans to turn it into a live fish processing museum and a small fish store.
According to Morgunbladid, the idea is to have the fish factory open for the public so tourists can observe how salt fish is processed and afterwards purchase the finished product in the attached fish store.
“We want to demonstrate that there is a fishing industry at the harbor in Reykjavík. We want to renovate the building and build an extension to open new possibilities, even a restaurant related to the fish processing,” said director of Brim Gudmundur Kristjánsson.
“To have fish processing like this in the center of a capital is unique, but we are a fish industry nation. We live on an island and we live off the sea. Tourists and others want to see that and we intend to show them,” Kristjánsson said.
He said guests will be able to watch how fish are unloaded and processed in addition to having a meal. “They get to see that there are not just music halls and museums by the harbor, but also people who work in fish processing,” Kristjánsson said.
Brim recently moved the main harbor of its trawlers from Akureyri to Reykjavík. Kristjánsson said this move did not mean that fish processing would be moved away from Akureyri in the north.
Björn Ingi Hrafnsson, managing director of Faxaflói Bay Harbors, told Morgunbladid that he feels positive about Brim’s plans. “We are always trying to create a condition for traditional harbor activities and it is very pleasing to have a company like Brim involved in the old harbor [in Reykjavík].”
The second issue of the print edition of Iceland Review 2010 has just been published. Entitled “Under the Volcano” the magazine dedicates 20 pages, words and pictures, to the volcanic eruption in Eyjafjallajökull glacier which made headlines all over the word. New subscribers will receive the book Puffins as a gift and all subscribers are part of a draw to win a trip to Iceland. Click here to subscribe to the magazine.
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Hendrikka Waage is an accomplished jewellery designer whose first children’s book Rikka and Her Magic Ring in Iceland, takes readers on an enchanted and educational journey through the country. It’s beautifully illustrated and a good lesson in geography, but the plot could have been better thought through and the moral of the story is a bit too prominent.
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On the third day of the Eyjafjallajökull eruption we drove from Skógar to Hvolsvöllur in total darkness, a distance of 18 kilometers. It was frightening, the darkness being so impenetrable that we could hardly see out the windows of the car. We could see faint lights from the farm standing right next to the highway.
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Ásmundur Sveinsson is among the foremost Icelandic sculptors. The current exhibition in the Ásmundur Sveinsson Museum in Reykjavík is entitled “I choose women who thrive…” and features women as symbols in the sculptor’s art. The works in the exhibition are selected from his entire career.
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