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Turf houses: Iceland's original 'green' buildings
2 years, 2 months ago

Turf houses: Iceland's original 'green' buildings

BBC  

Turf houses: Iceland's original 'green' buildings Miroslav_1/Getty Images Turf houses: Iceland's original 'green' buildings Known as "torfbæir", these ingeniously designed homes helped settle one of Europe's least-hospitable environments. Built and enlarged over the 18th and 19th Centuries, and used as a priest's house as well as a farmhouse, Glaumbær is Iceland's most extensive and intact group of turf buildings. Luke …

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An Icelandic ritual for wellbeing
4 years, 4 months ago

An Icelandic ritual for wellbeing

BBC  

An Icelandic ritual for wellbeing Arctic-Images/Getty Images Every Icelandic town has a pool that serves a focal point for the community When Iceland reopened its public swimming pools after two months of closure, the nation was so delighted that queues formed outside pools at midnight. “Some people will be tired at work on Monday – but… first and foremost they’ll …

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Iceland now feels like the coronavirus never happened
4 years, 6 months ago

Iceland now feels like the coronavirus never happened

CNN  

CNN — The bars and restaurants are full. For people arriving from countries still under lockdown, the sheer normality of eating lunch in a bustling Reykjavik cafe is almost as thrilling as peering over the thundering abyss of Iceland’s mighty Gullfoss waterfall. Ultimately, Iceland’s screening and contact tracing system has been so efficient that it can boast one of the …

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Capable of Making You Pinch Your Nose, How Brennevin Helps Gulp Down Iceland's Fave Shark Delicacy
4 years, 8 months ago

Capable of Making You Pinch Your Nose, How Brennevin Helps Gulp Down Iceland's Fave Shark Delicacy

News 18  

You go to bed listening to the torrential rain raging outside. The weather can't be theatrical anywhere else in the world, a visitor to Iceland, that Nordic Island country in Northern Atlantic would swear. On the street, you'd be curious as you catch men walking warily, stork-like, raising one step only after the other gets a firm footing on the …

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Tourists flee as falling slabs of Icelandic glacier create huge waves
5 years, 9 months ago

Tourists flee as falling slabs of Icelandic glacier create huge waves

ABC  

Tourists in Iceland have been forced to dash to higher ground to avoid large waves created by giant slabs of a glacier collapsing into freezing waters. Key points: The tourists raced across rocky ground to escape the waves The Breidamerkurjokull glacier and Jokulsarlon lagoon are popular with tourists Glaciers and volcanoes are culturally significant in Iceland About 10 people were …

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