Two women — one armed with a hi-def video camera — and a child visited the Secret Lagoon (Gamla Laugin in Icelandic) in March ...

In Reykjavík it is impossible to escape the trendy artisanal bakeries, which seem to pop up all over the place constantly, ...

The slaughterhouse-turned-music-festival Hátíðni returns to Borðeyri for three days of music, art, workshops and DIT ...

The devils of downtown Reykjavík rock have teamed up with art pop legend Barði Jóhannsson from the band Bang Gang to produce ...

Walk into almost any souvenir shop in Iceland and you will find the same familiar symbols staring back at you: Thor’s hammer ...

As the biggest English-language newspaper on this particular North Atlantic rock we share some responsibility for giving ...

It was the summer of 2003 and I, then editor of Grapevine, was walking through town with 58-year-old Megas, best known as ...

On July 2, Iceland competed in the World Cup. Not the FIFA World Cup underway in the U.S., Canada and Mexico. No, Iceland ...

Unsurprisingly the first generation living on the gravel (Reykjavík) is doing badly, it freaks out over all their options and then sinks to the bottom of misery.

I had no idea any of this existed. Sigur Rós had built some kind of sound installation in an Oxford basement, and I was ...

The biggest problem with cemeteries is that there aren’t any bars, so although they are often beautiful, serene and great for ...

The cover image was taken by professional driver Klemenz Geir Klemenzson on 18 June 2026. Klemenz was doing his job, which was to transfer luggage and equipment for hikers in the Icelandic highlands, ...