Towns across Iceland are holding all sorts of events and festivals this weekend to coincide with Seamen’s Day.
Among the country’s largest Seamen’s Day festivals is already going on in Grindavik, on the south western Reykjanes Peninsula. The four day-long programme of events includes art exhibitions, fairground rides, competitions and live music – including Bubbi Morthens and Friends, one of Iceland’s most loved musicians.
The eclectically varied schedule of goings-on in Grindavik include a dog show, helicopter rides, a golf competition, water fights, pillow fights and special offers in local shops and eateries. The official event booklet even has a coupon allowing 2 for 1 entry to the nearby Blue Lagoon spa during the festival.
In Reykjavik Seamen’s Day has morphed into a two-day Festival of the Sea, and offers a different but no less inspired set of summer activities. The festival will completely take over Reykjavik’s West Quay with activities ranging from puffin watching, fishing tours and rowing races to Viking fighting stunts and the opportunity to create a message in a bottle.
Reykjavik will once again host the Funny Fish display, which is a fascinating selection of weird and wonderful fish and sea life. There will be aeroplane flying stunts and a foghorn concerto where students from the Art Academy of Iceland’s composition department play harbouring ships’ foghorns along with the Reykjavík brass band.
Perhaps the tastiest treat on offer this weekend is the chance to eat a seafood feast at any one of eight top Reykjavik restaurants for a mere ISK 4,990 per person.
Other parts of Iceland are also taking this weekend just as seriously, including Akureyri and Olafsfjordur in the North, Holmavik in the Westfjords and in Fjardabyggd in the East.
Take a look at www.visiticeland.com, where a wealth of information is available for those wishing to visit Iceland. There are also contact details if you have any specific questions about Seamen’s Day.
Many Icelanders use to say that they have no relatives working in the fish industry, and they considered this a privilege. So, are more business administrators coming or more seaman workforce?
Yesterday was sailor day, in August we have the big fish day in Dalvík where you go to eat as much as you can of all sorts of fish, every Icelander is related to some one in the fishing industry
we can always use busyness administrators, on forklifts or as bait :)