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

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

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

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

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

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.

The armed influencer and Trump buddy It’s been a big couple of weeks for Prime Minister Kristrún Frostadóttir. After a rough ...

We’ve got a list of our favourite 80 Icelandic releases of 2026 so far, and we’re doing our best to write them up. We’ll get ...

This issue’s cover story is about tourists who brought two rugged Land Rover Defenders and used them to deface Iceland’s ...

There was a time when we got frequent questions from tourists about how to be a better visitor. People wanted to know key ...

A short ferry ride from Reykjavík carries you across a stretch of water to an island that feels surprisingly distant from the ...

I think that the French should know about this, and I think that hopefully they will also get reprimanded when they get back ...