Testify - Alan Doyle and Russell Crowe's new music video from Iceland
Russell Crowe spent the summer in Iceland shooting a new movie called Noah. After seeing the great landscape Russell got his friend Alan Doyle over to shoot a music video to the song Testify. And it...
View ArticleCaught in the storm - farmers amazing rescue work in Iceland
Two weeks ago, a fierce snow storm hit Iceland unexpectedly. At this time of the year we occasionally get the first snow, specially up in the mountains. The storm that hit Iceland Monday two weeks ago...
View ArticleHe knows alone who has wandered wide
It's World Tourism Day today. I'm a traveller and have been for as long as I remember. It's in my genes. I come from pilots and sailors. Vikings and voyagers. And I follow the ancient wisdom of the...
View ArticleAn Iceberg explodes of the Greenland coast - Satellite images
A large iceberg exploded the night to September 17th in Baffins Bay, 90 km north of Upernavik. The spread of fragments had reached an area of 4-5 km in diameter within a few hours from the explosion,...
View ArticleIceland's foreign minister sends a message to Netanyahu, Ahmadinejad, Syria...
In a speech Mr. Össur Skarphedinsson, foreign minister of Iceland gave at the UN General Assembly yesterday, he was very direct on the situation in Syria, in Palestine and the relations between Iran...
View ArticleRussell Crowe and Patti Smith's surprise concert in Reykjavik
As I told you last Monday Russell Crowe spent the summer here in Iceland shooting not only a new movie, but also a music video with Alan Doyle. In August there was a festival in Iceland called...
View ArticleA little trip to Iceland - The winners' video
Remember the SAD cars competition we were running in June where you could win a trip for two to Iceland with a tent, a rental car and some excursions? Well, the winners were two sisters from Belarus...
View ArticleThere are still trolls in Iceland!
Hvitserkur was a troll who lived in Strandir, west of the bay. He was very annoyed by the church bell in Þingeyrar, so much that one night he lost his patience and waded the bay to smash the bell. On...
View ArticleNaughty Little Yule Lads from Iceland - Sheep-Cote Clod
Tonight my kids put their shoe in the window. That's a tradition in Iceland. Not like everyday, but the last 13 days before Christmas. You see, here in Iceland we don't have A Santa Claus. We have 13...
View ArticleGully Gawk, The Second Yule Lad in Iceland
The second mischievous yule lad arrives tonight, called Giljagaur or Gully Gawk. He sneaks into the cow barn to steal some milk. Here's my version of his poem: Gully Gawk came second his hair as...
View ArticleThe breaking up of 7.4 cubic kilometers of ice caught on film
Those magnificent images of a large "chunk" of the Greenlandic ice cap breaking up were released on Wednesday. The magnitude of these events are hard to realize when there is nothing to compare it to,...
View ArticleWin a dog sledge trip in Greenland
In April two Colourobox photographers will join the four winners of the Metro Global Photo Challenge 2012 in a week long expedition to the wilderness of East Greenland. The tour starts with one night...
View ArticleSouth or North Iceland?
I got an inquiry via Facebook which I couldn't reply to, so I decided to reply to it hear. The question was as follows: Hello! I'm going to Iceland in late March and I have a few questions. I cannot...
View ArticleFire in Kulusuk
Northern lights over the town of Kulusuk. This is a picture I took from the school last November. The house that burned down is the one we see on the hill. I just received the following letter from a...
View ArticleAlert for Seismic Activity in Hekla Volcano
The police in Hvolsvöllur has issued an alert advicing hikers and travellers to stay off Hekla volcano because of unusual seismic activity. That does not have to mean a volcanic eruption, but it...
View ArticleGo Volcano Hopping in Iceland
Today is your last change to enter! Last month, Bus Hostel, a brand new hostel in Reykjavik Iceland, invited three travel bloggers, Shing from Hostelbookers.com, Lindsay McCormik for Traveldudes.com...
View ArticleNorthern Lights: Reykjavik turns off the lights for the Northern Lights
The northern light season has started. Last night those fantastic images were shot in the neighbourhood of Reykjavik, the capital of Iceland as the northern lights spectacles fascinated curious eyes on...
View ArticleThe Fjords of Northern Norway - Narvik to Skibotn
It was refreshing to land in Kiruna, 200 km north of Arctic Circle. Temperatures were just over freezing point and still snow covering the environment. I was there to run a workshop in place branding...
View ArticleBorder Crossings - A New World Record at Treriksröset
It was snowing. Like in a Christmas card, though it was May 12th. I couldn't even see Saana, the holy mountain for the Samis rising above Kilpisjärvi, the little sami village I was staying in. This...
View ArticleBárðarbunga Volcano - What Would an Eruption Mean?
In the last 48 hrs over 1.000 earthquakes have been registered in Bárðarbunga, a little known volcano in the Vatnajökull glacier in Iceland. A warning has been issued in Iceland that the volcano might...
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