Enjoy the Healing of Geothermal Seawater
Soothe your skin at the Blue Lagoon’s bathing facilities and through its skin care line
The Blue Lagoon draws visitors from around the world to soak in it...
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Icelandic and Chinese Twinned Towns
The Icelandic town of Hafnarfjörður and the Chinese city of Baoding have been twinned in friendship since 1996. Tryggvi Harðarson, who was a town councillor in...
Icelandic Times – Issue 42
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The Iceland-China model saving the world?
Interview with Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson, former President of Iceland
Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson, President of Iceland , was born in 1943 in the town of Ísafjö...
The Icelandic geothermal model is changing China
Arctic Green Energy’s joint venture with China’s Sinopec has become the world’s largest and fastest growing geothermal district heating company which is revolu...
China’s Glory in 70 Years
1st October this year marks the 70th
Anniversary of the founding of the People’s Republic of China. In 1949, when
the People’s Republic was founded, the Chines...
Icelandic China seafood led by Brim of Reykjavík
Free Trade Agreement leads to Iceland’s quest to China’s huge markets
Brim of Reykjavík is Iceland’s largest fishing company, along with Samherji based in t...
Seaweed Mecca of Iceland
Reaping the Health Benefits of Seaweed and Kelp
"I have sometimes said that Reykhólar is the seaweed mecca of Iceland," says Tryggvi Harðarson, district ma...
Evolving diplomatic relationship since 1971
Interview with Ambassador Ólafur Egilsson
Iceland and China established diplomatic relations in 1971. In February 1972, US President Richard Nixon met with ...
Iceland’s Struggle for its Fishing Grounds
Iceland’s rich fishing grounds in the High North of the North Atlantic reach an area beyond the Polar Circle more than seven times the size of the country. The...
The Amazing Story of Iceland, China & Ambassador Zhijian
Jin Zhijian – China’s Ambassador to Iceland – is not the average diplomat. He arrived in Iceland to become Ambassador in January 2018. „Ég man eftir þér,“ he s...
ICELANDIC TIMES – ISSUE 41
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t’s always exciting to visit a country like Iceland. So much to see, so much to do—and all in a short time. Fo...
A Unique Bathing Experience in the Idyllic East
Vök Baths offers guests the only floating geothermal pools in all Iceland.
Vök Baths is an exciting new geothermal bathing facility where guests can enjoy ...
Camping in Iceland
Whether backpacking, traveling in cars, motor-caravans, towing caravans or tent trailers or riding motorbikes or bikes, traveling around Iceland and camping ou...
UK better partner outside EU than sceptical within?
HM Ambassador Michael Nevin in an exclusive interview with Icelandic Times
It’s Friday morning 26th of July at the UK Embassy in Reykjavík as I sit down wit...
Villas in the midst of the Golden Circle
Golden Circle Villas, on the banks of Hvítá, White river, is centrally located in a truly special place in the South-west. The magical Golden Circle in the So...
Hotel Dyrhólaey
There is an Icelandic expression that says “When you have such a great view, who needs pictures on your walls?”. The phrase echoed my feelings exactly as I ar...
Borðeyri revisits its amazing heritage
“… to get commerce into the hands of the Icelanders so that the dividend goes to the natives and not out of the country.”
By Hrútafjörður – Fjord of Ra...
Skagaströnd
Where Past, Present and Future Meet
One might think that life in a small remote fishing town would result in a reserved population wary of outsider influenc...
ICELANDIC TIMES – ISSUE 40
ICELANDIC TIMES – ISSUE 40
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It’s always exciting to visit a country like Iceland. So much to see, so much to do—and...