The project is described as very extensive by Icelandic standards. The new road section is about 19 kilometres long, in addition to nine kilometres of side roads and four two-lane bridges. These ...

Iceland received generally positive marks in the newly released OECD economic report, presented on June 26. The report places particular emphasis on education, energy issues, and reforms to the ...

What is the Reykjavik Grapevine? Your essential guide to life, travel and entertainment in Iceland. The Reykavík Grapevine is Iceland's biggest, best and most widely read English-language publication.

What is the Reykjavik Grapevine? Your essential guide to life, travel and entertainment in Iceland. The Reykavík Grapevine is Iceland's biggest, best and most widely read English-language publication.

In this episode, we cover a search for a lost person on Mt. Esja that began Monday and was ongoing when we recorded; we discuss last week’s fatality at Brúará, midway between Laugarvatn and Geysir; ...

Tonight is packed with great events across Reykjavík. At Tónabíó, multicultural tropical-psychedelic cumbia band La Dimensión performs at 20:00, and La Poblana will be serving up burritos and nachos ...

On May 31, 2024, a group of anti-war and pro-Palestine protesters gathered to demonstrate outside a government meeting on Skuggasund. As a group of protesters lay down on the street to block the ...

Therefore we find ourselves obliged to crudely contextualise some of the main characters in the cover feature, in order to help you — dear reader — to get a better handle of the subject in question.

Despite continuous efforts, attempts to refloat the orca early this morning — around 6:00 — were not successful. While the whale did begin to swim as the tide returned, it remains in the cove and has ...

The Grapevine’s guide to sounding Icelandic, one word at a time Making the rounds every so often is a list of 37 Icelandic terms for different levels of drunk you can be. There’s góðglaður (a ...

Snorri wasn’t alone in sensing the shift. Sigríður Á. Andersen, former minister of justice and Independence Party MP, now a Centre Party candidate, put it plainly, “Young people are leaning right.” ...

On June 18, one person was transported to a hospital when a car collided into the side of a bus at the intersection between Hverfisgata and Klapparstígur in Reykjavík, RÚV reports. Bus number 2 was ...