bits and pieces from the northern island.
Pu Græna Ljósið, the only distributor in Iceland for foreign indipendent films, presents Bíódagar 2010, a film festival that will run for three weeks, from April 16 to May 6. With its main venue at the Regnboginn cinema in downtown Reykjavík, the festival’s calendar consists of twenty-four films selected among the most interesting releases of the … Read the full article →
As many of you already know, yesterday the infamous 2000+ pages – nine volumes in all – report about the causes of the banking collapse of October 2008 compiled by a Special Investigative Commission (SIC) has been disclosed. The reading taking place at the Reykjavík City Theatre is still going on and it will keep … Read the full article →
After all the time spent retrieving information about the volcanic eruption at Fimmvörðuháls, last week we decided we wanted to take a look at what was going on personally, before volcanic activity subsided and before the expected nightmarish climax of Easter holidays’ crowds. We knew Reykjavik Excursions organized tours for the event, so we booked … Read the full article →
Lucas is a homeless living in the streets with only a bony stray kitten as a companion; Jacques is the owner of The House of Oysters, a bar he runs alone with his dog Rococo. Apart from their pet friends, Lucas and Jacques don’t seem to have much in common at first sight: Lucas is … Read the full article →
As the cost of living is one of most common issues one can encounter when visiting or moving to another country, here we try to give you an idea compiling a list of some of the most common consumer goods. This list isn’t an ultimate scale and it will be updated frequently. Prices may vary … Read the full article →
It must be some form of idiosyncrasy or it must be a fixation. Or it’s the former cinema student in me that has been brainwashed by manuals written by conceited scholars and critics. Whatever it is, I can’t restrain myself. Should I? I haven’t signed a deal with anybody and this site isn’t supposed to … Read the full article →
In the fantasy of many, the words fast food conjure images of endless queues, mediocre and badly packaged dishes, suspicious ingredients and food so greasy and hardly digestible that even a walrus would find it difficult to have a nice day in the full possession of its faculties after swallowing it down. Giant creepy clowns … Read the full article →
Many times before coming here I had the occasion to read about complaints – especially from UK and US citizens – regarding the prohibitive costs of alcoholic beverages in the Nordic countries area. I honestly didn’t know what to think of it at the time, since stereotypal depiction of Bretons often makes fun of them … Read the full article →