Posted on 03 February 2012. Tags: Hotel in Downtown Reykjavik, Hotel in Reykjavik, Reykjavik Art Festival, Reykjavik Hotel, Summer events in Reykjavik
Hotel Odinsve, a popular
hotel in downtown Reykjavik, is preparing to accommodate a vast amount of visitors in Iceland for this year’s cultural summer events, including the Reykjavik Art Festival, and the National Day of Iceland.
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Posted in Art, Business, Culture, General, Iceland, International, Leisure, Travel
Posted on 03 February 2012. Tags: Iceland, january, tourism, visit, winter
Foreign visitors to Iceland have never numbered higher in the month of January than this year.
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Posted in Business, Iceland, International, Leisure, MBL, Travel
Posted on 03 February 2012. Tags: Car Hire Iceland, Car Rental Iceland, Iceland 4x4, Iceland 4x4 Hire, Iceland 4x4 Rental, Iceland Car Hire 4x4, Iceland Drive, Iceland Jeep, Iceland Jeep Rental, Iceland Self Drive, Iceland Self Drive Tour, Iceland tour
With
self drive tours in Iceland becoming ever increasing popular, ASKJA car rental is offering Jeep 4x4 car hire in order to give visitors freedom and flexibility when travelling around ‘the land of fire and ice’.
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Posted in Iceland, Leisure, Travel
Posted on 03 February 2012. Tags: coast guard, engineering, Iceland, rolls royce, Thor
Iceland's brand new coastguard patrol ship, Þór - the biggest in the country and the service's new flagship; has developed a persistent vibration in one of its engines and will likely need to go overseas for repair.
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Posted in General, Iceland, International, MBL, Norway, Technology, Travel
Posted on 02 February 2012. Tags: crime, finance, fridjon thordarson, Iceland, money laundering, Politics
A man accused of money laundering and then let off without charge is suing the Icelandic State and demanding an apology.
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Posted in Business, Iceland, MBL, Politics
Posted on 02 February 2012. Tags: bombing, Iceland, investigation, police, Reykjavik
Icelandic police are searching for a man (pictured) and a white Renault Kangoo van in connection to their investigation into the explosion and bomb which were found in central Reykjavík on Tuesday.
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Posted in General, Iceland, MBL
Posted on 02 February 2012. Tags: attack, court, crime, greece, Iceland, outlaws
The Supreme Court of Iceland has upheld a Reykjavík District Court decision to allow the mother of a Greek man, who was the victim of a severe physical assault in central Reykjavík in May 2010, to act as a witness on his behalf.
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Posted in General, Iceland, International, MBL
Posted on 02 February 2012. Tags: accident, death, Iceland, Norway, ship
UPDATED 2nd February: The Icelandic sailor rescued late in January off Norway survived because of his floatation suit. His three crew mates from the sunken trawler were not so lucky and the Norwegian coastguard has called off its search. An interview has now been released.
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Posted in General, Iceland, MBL, Norway
Posted on 01 February 2012. Tags: africa, deaf, Iceland, internet, Norway, sign language, signwiki, technology
Icelandic sign language is now, for the first time, available to everybody online. Iceland's education and culture minister opened the new internet language learning portal today, which already contains over 1,200 signs.
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Posted in Culture, Iceland, International, MBL, Society, Technology