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Spring is around the corner

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Spring is around the corner It is a remarkable day, equally so in the springtime like today, and in the autumntime. These two days have roughly the same amou...

Askja waking up?

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Askja waking up? If the volcano Askja/Dyngjufjöll, which is on the northern side of the highlands, between Vatnajökull and Mývatn, starts to erupt, it could ...

Tjarnargata by Tjörnin

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Tjarnargata by Tjörnin Tjarnargata, runs from Fógetagarðurinn, where the first settler Ingólfur Arnarson built his settlement in 874, to Hringbraut, along Tj...

Helgi’s Great Corridor

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Helgi's Great Corridor "Rakel, my wife, and I loosely summed up the value of the gift to the Icelandic Museum of Art, around one hundred million". Says Helgi...

2 Giants

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2 Giants On the eastern side of Hljómskálagarður, not far from each other, stand two giants in the cultural history of Icelanders, the contemporaries Jónas H...

A moment at the National Museum

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A moment at the National Museum Rúnar Gunnarsson's exhibition (1944) Not the blink of an eye, but eternity, just opened at the National Museum of Iceland and...

The night yes the night

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The night yes the night It is great, as a tourist (yes and as a local), now that the air is getting warmer to walk around and explore Reykjavík in the evenin...

War & Peace at Austurvöllur

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War & Peace at Austurvöllur Shortly after new years 1975-1976, Icelanders broke political relations with Great Britain. Unique in the history of NATO, an...

Hannes the first minister

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Hannes the first minister Hannes Hafstein became Iceland's first minister in 1904, when a special ministerial office in the Danish government for Icelandic a...

The propeller shield

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The propeller shield  On the corner of Geirsgata and Tryggvagata, at the southern end of Reykjavík Harbor in the center of Reykjavík, there is a fun monument o...

B S Í 

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B S Í At Hringbraut stands BSÍ, the capital's transport hub. A house that was built almost 60 years ago, in 1965, and has long since become far too small. An...

Bike & chair

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Bike & chair The Design Museum of Iceland (Hönnunarsafn Íslands), in Garðabær, has in its collection about 5,000 items from the beginning of the last cen...

The exhibition Viðnám

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The exhibition Viðnám Science and art go hand in hand in the Icelandic Museum of Art's exhibition, Viðnám, which is an interdisciplinary exhibition where art...

Fljót at Tröllaskagi

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Fljót at Tröllaskagi The northernmost settlement in the eastern part of Skagafjörður is Fljót. Snowy countryside, south of Siglufjörður on Tröllaskagi. There...

Ash Wednesday

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Ash Wednesday Although Iceland converted from Catholicism to Lutheranism in 1550, almost 500 years ago, Ash Wednesday has survived here as a holiday. It is p...