bits and pieces from the northern island.
If you are in Iceland during the festive period, you may consider visiting the Jólaþorpið (Christmas Village) in Hafnarfjörður, where you will be able to buy from local artisans a variety of hand-crafted goods, from food to knitwear to Christmas decorations, with live music and entertainment every opening day. We took a brief peek at … Read the full article →
I thought I’d had enough of the usual Christmas decadence. I thought I’d had my fill in my life, year after year, and I also thought I possessed the required sense of abstraction to be able to make up with my imagination for what I had not seen yet. But you know, as far as … Read the full article →
Dear Iceland lovers, if you like felines as we do and you still can’t decide which calendar you will be getting for the upcoming year, we have a suggestion: why don’t you get one of our awesome Reykjavík Cats calendars? This may look like shameless self-promotion, but trust me, it’s definitely a nice gift for … Read the full article →
This year’s been filled with more musical disappointment than I could take. Many of the major releases I was looking forward to with perhaps exaggerated anticipation resulted in being unbearable earsore or, in the best cases, bland and forgettable works. What’s with all this synthetic crap anyway? Some musicians think that since anybody else is … Read the full article →
I won’t hide it: this matter has been bothering me for months. Every time I am in the proximity of a Bónus supermarket or I see somebody carrying the infamous flashy yellow bags, I experience a stabbing feeling in my eye. At first I couldn’t exactly point out why. Yellow definitely isn’t my color of … Read the full article →
Have you ever felt anxious, irritable and depressed as the cold season approaches? Do you feel plainly miserable and you feel you have trouble dealing with any of your usual activities? Wouldn’t you prefer to stay in bed and sleep all day? According to results of scientific studies, most people experience changes in mood, dislike … Read the full article →
Despite the hot news regarding a possible eruption at Grímsvötn that have been circulating since the beginning of the week, triggered by detection of abnormal seismic activity in the area, here in Iceland we are already preparing for the cold. In fact, the first snow has been falling during the last days, and it definitely … Read the full article →
In between a few attacks of cold and sore throat, we have been enjoying the autumnal weather, with its fits of wildness which we were not exactly prepared to face. Mothers and the Yahoo! Weather kept on informing us about the mild temperatures in the Southern part of Europe. We had little time though to … Read the full article →