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Iceland’s blood mare industry is a disgrace
This past weekend I stumbled across a headline in an Icelandic media outlet and had to do a double take because I couldn’t believe what I was reading.
This was the headline: Bóndinn segist stoltur stunda blóðmerahald. Translation: “Farmer...
The storm before the storm
Because calm is not something we’ve had much of this week
My, oh my. Have we had a week. The weather has been crazy. It began with yellow and orange weather warnings last Wednesday—I was at my cottage where I had planned to stay for a few...
How do you like our Nobel laureate?
On Carson, Starr and the Icelanders’ insatiable hunger for validation
In the summer of 1984, Ringo Starr came to Iceland to attend a music festival, along with his wife, Barbara Bach. Iceland at the time was nobody’s idea of a cultural hot...
The rural dispatch
Reflections on life outside Iceland’s capital
Hello! Veering away from social issues this week in favour of things closer to home.
Making tourists pay
A new means of sourcing funds for tourism infrastructure, plus the cost of the Icelanders’ silent history
For years now, Icelandic authorities have been debating how to handle the cost of building and improving tourist infrastructure. The...
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