bits and pieces from the northern island.
Christmas is approaching and we want to thank our readers with some little extra. Here is a Christmas wallpaper to get into the festive mood. I know, it’s a bit on the wacky side, but Christmas can indeed be very wacky. Enjoy! 640×960 (iPhone)||800×600||1024×768 || 1280×800 || 1280×960 || 1280×1024 || 1440×900 || 1600×900 || … 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 →
Once upon a time a country named Germany had lost a war which now we know as World War II. WWII had been a very long and taxing war for everybody, but it had been especially terrible for the Germans because they were the losers. As it happens in cases like this, consequences for the … Read the full article →
It’s time for the annual appointment with the Menningarnótt. This year’s Culture Night is going to take place in Reykjavík on August 21, 2010. The whole downtown area of the capital is going to host several events of different genres held at various locations throughout the whole day, from morning till night, both indoors and … Read the full article →
Starting today and ending with a bang later this Sunday, the famous Reykjavík Gay Pride is back and ready to take over the capital this first week of August. The Reykjavík Gay Pride was established back in 1999 and has become since one of the most important yearly appointments in town. Thousands of people of … Read the full article →
Jónsvaka Midsummer Festival 2010, an important promoting platform for many promising members of the Icelandic art scene, is going to take place in the heart of Reykjavík from 24th to 27th of June.
Has ever happened to you to find yourself in a new place, not having a clue about what’s going on? It’s like that all the time for me, but I must say, it’s always been like that. Iceland feels like any other place in the world I’ve been to, from this point of view. Back … Read the full article →
After all the fuss of the last days, when the whole world was hungry for details and information about local volcanos going bonkers, at least some peace has been restored. Everybody feels safer now that air travel companies and travel agencies seem to have reaffirmed the victory of human power over nature – and everybody … Read the full article →