bits and pieces from the northern island.
While small, Reykjavík is a multi-faceted city, always changing and always surprising. Each street feels as a small world, especially in the old West area of the city, and in the streets of the city center. Light and shadow can change a colorful building into an ominous Gothic mansion in a few seconds; a small … Read the full article →
Today, the Keflavík airport reopened, mostly thanks to the fact the ash emission from Eyjafjallajökull has decreased considerably in the last days. Most international and domestic flights have thus been resumed. Anyhow, less ash does not mean that the eruption is ending. After the eruption switched to a different phase, ash emission diminished and lava … Read the full article →
For the first time since the beginning of the eruption, the main airport in Iceland, Keflavík International Airport, has been closed due to the ash coming from Eyjafjallajökull. Winds changed direction during the night, bringing ashes to the southwestern area of the country. The airport website shows that all flights have been cancelled. The other … 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 →
Iceland is often described, especially on travel package brochures, as the land of ice and fire. This is a decent description, but actually, as soon as you set foot on the island, you understand that this is a land where earth, wind, water, and fire are in constant fight against each other. Traveling through Iceland … Read the full article →
Today was a beautiful, sunny day in Iceland. Tourists stranded here by the Eyjafjallajökull ash cloud and Icelanders were happily strolling the streets of Reykjavík. Others took their car, or rented one, to get as close as possible to the volcano, as we did yesterday (check our photos here). Traffic on IcelandChronicles.com was high, with … Read the full article →
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 →
A final update before bed time. Life in Reykjavík goes on as usual. Most people we met downtown today were not even remotely scared by the eruption or the ash cloud. Whoever mentioned dust masks became immediately object of ridicule and scorn. So, really, people in the city are not really worried for the time … Read the full article →