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The Iceland Touring Association (FÍ) organizes various hiking trips across Iceland throughout the year, including a project called ‘one peak per week’ where people sign up to join FÍ on hikes to 52 mountains in one year. In mid-January the group hiked two mountains called Helgafell in the capital region.
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Fjallabyggd (“Mountain Settlement”) is a skier’s dream. Its slopes are perfect for slaloming and there are also tracks for telemark skiing. Winter sporting enthusiasts can also go ice skating or rent snowmobiles. In summer, Fjallabyggd turns into a paradise for hikers. Read this special promotion about one of Iceland’s best hidden gems.
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The annual celebration Kærleikar (“Love Games”) takes place today at Austurvöllur square in central Reykjavík, starting at 2 pm. Its goal is to encourage a feeling of companionship, show support for one another and emit a positive vibe.
From the 2009 Kærleikar. Photo by ESA.
The celebration opens with a few speeches on love, followed by a march around the Reykjavík Pond alongside musicians and street artists. Afterwards the choirs of Reykjavík will perform together under the direction of conductor by Gróa Hreinsdóttir, as stated on the event’s Facebook site.
Other participants include troubadour Svavar Knútur, search and rescue team members, the theater group Perlan, the volunteers of Worldwide Friends and visual artist Gegga. The Kærleikar were first held in 2009 at the initiative of author Bergljót Arnalds.
All are welcome; people are encouraged to wear something red.
Also coming up is the Reykjavík Winter Lights festival, February 9-12, including the Museum Night on February 10 when the capital’s museums will stay open until midnight with surprise guests and special events, as stated on reykjavik.is.
February 11 is International Children’s Day, followed by a Pool Night. Swimming pools around the city will be open until midnight with various artists performing at the pools.
All of the events during the Winter Lights Festival are free. For further information on the program, visit the festival’s website or download the latest issue of the free guide What’s On in Reykjavík.
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An exposition called “B3D” opens in the concert and conference center Harpa, the Ríma hall, in Reykjavík at 10 am today and will run through February 16 with various events taking place in the evenings from February 6-16 in the Kaldalón hall.
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Footage was captured of an obscure phenomenon yesterday which appeared to be swimming in the glacial river Jökulsá í Fljótsdal, east Iceland. People speculate whether this may be the notorious snake-like monster Lagarfljótsormurinn.
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The primary proceedings in the case of Sigurjón Þ. Árnason, one of Landsbanki’s two former CEOs at the time of its collapse in October 2008, against the bank over his pension savings are currently ongoing at Reykjavík District Court.
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A man in his thirties underwent surgery at Landspítali, the national hospital, after being stabbed with a knife between 3 and 4 am this morning in Kópavogur, a neighboring town of Reykjavík. He suffered severe stab wounds.
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The current issue of the quarterly magazine Iceland Review includes for example an interview with world-renowned fashion designer Steinunn Sigurðardóttir as well as features on the successful biotech company ORF Genetics and the hot debate regarding the EU. If you subscribe now, you will receive a photo book by IR editor, photographer Páll Stefánsson of the eruptions in Eyjafjallajökull as a gift. Click here to subscribe to the magazine and here to buy a gift subscription.
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REVIEWS
Sweet, honest music from troubadour Svavar Knútur.
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Does an image say more than a thousand words? Sometimes it does. It is interesting to see Iceland through travelers’ eyes. Some visiting for the twentieth time, others for the first time, but almost all of them focus their lenses on nature; the tiniest details or the greatest panorama of lava fields and mountains.
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The painter Karen Agnete (1903-1992) was one of many Danish women who married an Icelander and moved with their husbands to Iceland from Copenhagen in the first half of the 20th century. She was fascinated by Iceland and Icelanders; the current exhibition at Kjarvalsstaðir highlights the types of paintings she concentrated on.
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