Iceland Monitor
Fri, 09 Sep 2022 11:00:00 +0000Vigdís remembering Queen Elizabeth II
"She was a wonderful person and I really cared for her. I will miss her a lot," said Vigdís Finnbogadóttir, the former President of Iceland yesterday.
Fri, 09 Sep 2022 10:28:00 +0000Remembering Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II
Yesterday Guðni Th. Jóhannessson, the President of Iceland, og Katrín Jakobsdóttir, the Prime Minister of Iceland, were among the world leaders sending their condolences to the British nation and remembering Her Majesty Queen Eliza...
Thu, 08 Sep 2022 17:00:00 +0000Hrísey in Eyjafjörður gets great reviews in The Guardian
The island Hrísey in Eyjafjörður up north in Iceland gets great reviews in an article in The Guardian. In the article is a list of destinations that stood out to the readers of the paper in this year.
Thu, 08 Sep 2022 11:00:00 +0000"Want to put the Westman Islands on the Culinary map"
The Food Festival Matey starts today in the Westman Islands and ends next Saturday and there will be a big seafood feast in the islands. The Westman Islands already house some of the best restaurants in the country and more people are making a p...
Thu, 08 Sep 2022 06:00:00 +0000Áslaug Arna voted Politician of the Year
Áslaug Arna Sigurbjörnsdóttir, the Minister of Higher Education, Science and Innovation, received yesterday the Politician of the year 2022 awards at the One Young World conference in Manchester in England.
Wed, 07 Sep 2022 16:00:00 +0000The Spanish angler is recovering
The condition of the angler who had an electric shock while fly fishingin East-Rangá yesterday is considered quite good and much better than was expected yesterday. This information comes from Gunnar Guðjónsson, the head tourist guide in the ar...
Wed, 07 Sep 2022 14:00:00 +0000"Nothing Danish there, with all due respect"
The President of Iceland, Guðni Th. Jóhannesson, has weighed in on the chocolate covered liquorice drama and tweets that chocolate covered liquorice is "as Icelandic as glaciers and elves, volcanoes and waterfalls. Nothing Danish there...
Wed, 07 Sep 2022 06:30:00 +0000A man fly fishing in East-Rangá got an electrical shock
The police in the southern part of Iceland reports that the police and ambulance were called to the Health Inistitution of South Iceland in Hvolsvöllur just after 10:30 AM yesterday morning because of a man who had been fly fishing in East-Rangá...
Tue, 06 Sep 2022 18:00:00 +0000Walk to school campaigns starts tomorrow at 8:45 AM
The National and Olympic Sports Association of Iceland will start the campaign Walk to School tomorrow morning at 8:45 AM in Melaskóli in the western part of Reykjavík. This is the 16th time Iceland has been a part of this international campaign...
Tue, 06 Sep 2022 11:00:00 +0000The chocolate covered liquorice war
The statements of the danish liquorice producer Johan Bülow that he was the one who invented chocolate covered liquorice are "pure nonsense" according to the managing director of Sambó Kólus candy producers.
Tue, 06 Sep 2022 06:30:00 +0000Rising sea levels a pending problem
Sigurður Ingi Jóhannsson the Minister of Infrastructure says that rising sea levels are alarming and that Icelanders need to tackle this problem to secure the coastline. That would be a massive undertaking.
Mon, 05 Sep 2022 14:15:00 +000050-100 litre oil spill when a truck capsized near Reykjavík
It is estimated that around 50-100 litres of oil spilled into the ground when an Eimskip cargo truck capsized just by the exit to Waldorfsskóli.
Sun, 04 Sep 2022 13:35:00 +0000North has been fully booked since it opened
Recently the restaurant North opened in Akureyri, and it is the brainchild of Gunnar Karl Gíslason, masterchef and then some, but he is the man behind the Michelin restaurant Dill in Reykjavík. As it would be expected by Gunnar Karl and his team...
Sat, 03 Sep 2022 08:00:00 +0000Sold out too fast for mom to get her garlic
For the last two years there has been an experimental harvesting of garlic in Austur-Landeyjar and they have been trying a few types of garlic. Last year the farmer Hörður Bender in Efri-Úlfsstaðir harvested one ton of fresh garlic which went ...
Fri, 02 Sep 2022 14:30:00 +0000A third of women in Iceland been harrassed at their workplace
A third of women in Iceland have been sexually harassed at their workplace or have been subjected to violence in their lives. The findings come from a massive research project called Saga Cohort, which documents the impact of stressful life events...
Fri, 02 Sep 2022 08:00:00 +0000More customers getting indexed mortgages
The key interest rate of the Central Bank has gone up 3.5 percentage points this year. Una Jónsdóttir, the director of the economics department of Landsbanki says to Morgunblaðið that more people are taking indexed loans because of this rise i...
Thu, 01 Sep 2022 12:00:00 +0000Raising money for the family
Fundraising has started for the family of Eva Hrund Pétursdóttir who died in the shooting attack in Blönduós on 21st of August.
Thu, 01 Sep 2022 09:30:00 +0000Never more overnight stays than this July
The total number of overnight stays in Icelandic hotels and other accommodation for tourists have never been more than last July, or 1,550,600. This means that every night there were 50 thousand guests staying overnight in Iceland in the month of ...
Wed, 31 Aug 2022 13:30:00 +0000Nine days of gathering sheep starts today
Now when fall is upon us the round up of sheep is being prepared all over the country. Few areas in Iceland need longer time to gether their sheep than the farmers in Gnúpverjaafréttur, but the area they need to cover goes all the way from Þjó...
Wed, 31 Aug 2022 10:00:00 +0000Looking into amending the laws regarding theft of wages
Guðmundur Ingi Guðbrandsson the Minister of Social Affairs and Labour says the ministry is looking into changing the laws regarding theft of wages.