Your Online Guide to Iceland

Description: Örlygur Hnefill Örlygsson is the manager of Húsavík Hotels and co-founder of bookiceland.co.uk. He has worked as a journalist at Fréttablaðið newspaper in Reykjavík and at the Parliament of Iceland, as an assistant to MP for North East Constituency.

Posts by Örlygur Hnefill

The Pirate Bay finds new home in Iceland

Posted on April 25, 2013
After bouncing around several top-level domains over the past couple of months, BitTorrent tracker The Pirate Bay has finally found a home in Iceland, mashable.com reports. The Pirate Bay’s search for a...
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No wonder some people call it nIceland.

Posted on April 6, 2013
The World Economic Forum’s Travel and Tourism Competitiveness Report 2013 was published earlier this month. Iceland and New Zealand were considered most welcoming towards foreign tourists in a ranking of...
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Icelandic trolls cause a volcanic eruption on Facebook

Posted on March 26, 2013
There are no breaking news at this time on volcanic activity in Mt. Hekla, one of Iceland’s largest volcanoes. Contrary to what many Icelandic Facebook users believe, the volcano has...
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Northern Lights show of a lifetime

Posted on March 16, 2013
If you are in Iceland today, or on your way here in the next two days, be prepared for the show of a lifetime. Yesterday, the sun erupted with an...
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A raft of Icelandic talent appearing at Canadian Music Week

Posted on February 12, 2013
A raft of Icelandic talent – including Thorunn Antonia, Ásgeir Trausti and Apparat Organ Quartet – will be appearing at Canadian Music Week next month as part of a stellar...
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The Huffington Post recommends Reykjavik for celebrating on New Year’s Eve

Posted on December 23, 2012
The Huffington Post travel blog has selected Reykjavík as one of the 20 best places in the world for celebrating on New Year’s Eve. Among the other cities named are...
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Of Monsters and Men in new iPhone 5 commercial

Posted on September 13, 2012
The song Dirty Paws by Icelandic indie pop band Of Monsters and Men is featured in new iPhone 5 commercial released today. The 7-minute commercial shows the features of the...
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Apollo Astronaut Training in Iceland

Posted on August 27, 2012
In 1965 and 1967, two groups of American Apollo astronauts visited Iceland to study geology and practice collecting samples, under the guidance of Icelandic and American geologists. The Apollo geology...
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The day Neil Armstrong set his foot on Iceland

Posted on August 25, 2012
In the summer of 1967, a group of American astronauts visited Iceland to study the islands’ geology under the guidance of Icelandic and American geologists. This was the second group...
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Katrín Júlíusdóttir appointed Iceland’s Minister of Finance

Posted on August 25, 2012
Katrín Júlíusdóttir has been appointed Iceland’s Minister of Finance. She will taka office on October 1, 2012. This was announced at the Social Democratic Alliance parliamentary party meeting this morning....
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