Is Iceland Dangerous To Travel In Winter?
Looking at the news over the past 2 months, the thought arises whether Iceland is a dangerous country to travel in the winter or whether …
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Looking at the news over the past 2 months, the thought arises whether Iceland is a dangerous country to travel in the winter or whether …
The weather in Iceland has been bad to say the least. If fierce bad weather and lots of snow is an indicator of global warming …
When the old meets infinity with a splash of romance, the magic happens. Sometimes it’s enough to sit in front of the endless horizon and …
Iceland’s beaches are different. In the south of the country there are large black sandy beaches but in other parts of the country the beaches …
Next up are the fireworks and New Year’s Eve. A beloved tradition that is now on shaky ground. It seems the fireworks are polluting and …
The mood of the day is stillness and tranquility. The weather is cold but still and the sun does some paintwork on the sky. Christmas …
It has been said that Christmas is a time of gratitude and there is a lot of truth in that statement. If people feel good …
The bad weather in the past couple of weeks has exposed weaknesses in infrastructure that has caught many interested parties off guard. Areas in the …
The past few days have been difficult across the country. There has been heavy snowfall in the north of Iceland and wind speed has been …
Icelanders are a great history nation. Every year, many books are published in the months before Christmas. Icelanders love to tell stories and they love …
It’s amazing how the environment changes a lot in the early winter sunset when the sky is clear and the sea is calm. This is …
When the country is an island in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean it is necessary to place lighthouses along its shore to guide ships …
When the daylight time is short and bright over the winter, the pink color comes along and sets an incredibly beautiful look on the landscape. …
Sometimes the weather in Iceland is quite freaky. You go out in the sunshine and after a few minutes it is pouring rain or snowing. …
Thick newly fallen snow is incredibly clean and beautiful. Sometimes it is so thick that it changes the landscape. This snow fell one winter in …
When a major increase began in the arrival of tourists a few years ago, there were also a large number of those who came to …
In the western part of the country there are places that are very windy. In these places, it can be dangerous to be on the …
Everyone has a valley they find the most beautiful of all. The green valleys, the steep valleys, the wide valleys or sand valleys. My favorite …
On this bright and beautiful autumn day we were not the only ones enjoying the scenic landscape from the harbour. At first we did not …
You can never know what the moonshine and moonlight will be like in the Westfjords. Sometimes the sky is clear and the moon illuminates the …
Reykjavik has changed a lot in recent years and decades. It can be said that it has changed from being rather relaxed city with a …
Icelanders suffered financial crisis in 2008, like many other nations at that time. There were difficult times that followed and many things were revealed about …
Once upon a time, actually in the eighteenth century, was a guy that collected manuscripts in Iceland. Among other things he collected 700 manuscripts that …
We stumbled recently upon a fascinating photo of a lighthouse on a 40 meter high rock in the middle of the Atlantic ocean. And we …
Climate change is on people’s minds and there is a reason for it. The world is heading for a difficult future if not acted upon …
There are tens of thousands of visitors that visit the Westfjords of Iceland via cruise ships. Sometimes the streets of the small town of Isafjordur …
Statistics is a great tool to examine how communities are formed and their main characteristics. Iceland in Focus has a great love for statistics so …
It is very interesting to think about the great changes in society that have taken place in Iceland over the past hundred years. Hundred years …
It’s amazing how nature works. The need for all organisms to reproduce and survive is so strong that life ignites and thrives in the most …
Icelanders are as closely connected to the sea as any nation can be. For more than a thousand years, the fish around Iceland have kept …