The Iceland Weather Report

Maístjarnan

2012-05-01T11:19:48Z

It’s May 1, International Workers Day, sometimes called “the real labour day”. Here in Iceland, this is a day when most places that employ workers are closed, and there are marches and rallies held in Reykjavík to demonstrate unity and demand good labour conditions. The “workers day off” maxim has been stretched to the limit [...]

My super-adventurous Katla excursion!

2012-04-24T20:10:59Z

I have been doing some work for Reykjavík Excursions, which as some of you may recall was once the primary sponsor of this site. After I stopped updating [regularly] they got in touch and asked if I would be willing to help them rework the text on their website, with part of the deal being [...]

This site is currently not being updated

2012-04-20T00:26:09Z

That means that there’s really not very much action around here. However, if you are a visitor genuinely interested in Iceland and would like to engage with us, please join us on Facebook, or follow me on Twitter. And of course, feel free to browse through the archives. Thank you!

On the occasion of the opening of the Harpa concert hall

2012-04-10T15:10:20Z

This evening will see the official opening of Harpa, Iceland’s new concert hall. The story of Harpa is the stuff of legend – somewhere during the boom years its construction was usurped by one Björgólfur Guðmundsson, former owner and Chairman of the Board of Landsbanki [also former owner of West Ham FC], who planned to [...]

On silencing and the revoking of civil rights

2012-04-10T15:11:50Z

Hello everyone! I’ve decided to resurface because I wanted to post this important interview with Elvira Mendez-Pinedo, a lecturer at the University of Iceland and one of the clearest voices out of Iceland these days. Here she’s discussing a book called Indignez Vous! that is making major waves throughout France and elsewhere, about things that [...]

Lögberg Heimskringla reviews our book!

2012-04-10T15:12:02Z

Dear everyone: just checking in briefly to post a link to a glowing review of The Little Book of the Icelanders in the Icelandic-Canadian paper Lögberg-Heimskringla. There aren’t many books I’d recommend reading over morning coffee but The Little Book of the Iceanders is one of them. [...] I laughed at the essays in this [...]

Announcing our new eBook!

2011-02-18T22:46:57Z

As some of you may recall, when I decided to stop writing this blog last October I claimed I was just about ready to launch a new eBook. For various reasons it’s taken a bit more time than I initially thought; however, it is FINALLY ready now. Huzzah! It’s called The Little Book of the [...]

Some links, as per your request

2010-11-14T23:52:13Z

Hello everyone! Thank you so much for your kind and lovely words — and your encouragement — in the comments to the last post. I am truly touched. Some of you have been asking for links to other blogs about Iceland written in English, and of course it was remiss of me not to think [...]

The end of the line

2010-10-29T13:44:59Z

Well, we’ve seen it happen across the blogosphere, and now it’s happening here: after six years online, this blog has finally run out of steam. It’s time to stop. This decision has been a long time coming and has certainly not been easy. I’ve put a lot into this little project, and over these past [...]

Gearing up for a constitutional review

2012-04-10T15:12:43Z

Some of you may have noticed that I skated pretty nimbly over the issue of the constitutional reform the other day. If I do say so myself. Of course the matter of reviewing the Icelandic constitution is a highly significant one, and I happen to think that the way we’re going about it here is [...]