Heat up your mid-winter blahs at the Fourth Annual Food and Fun Festival in Reykjavik. This week-long festival of special promotions at restaurants and bars brings to light achievements of chefs and brew masters, as well as manufacturers of Icelandic gourmet products such as caviar, shrimp, lamb and cheese.

Hotel Budir (www.budir.is) is one of the top five "modern seaside hotels" in the world, according to an article published in the U.K.’s Independent. Located on the Snaefellsnes Peninsula, the hotel has a view of not only the ocean, but of lava fields and the Snaefellsnes glacier.

The Icelandair Horse Festival 2004, will be held at Hella in the Rangárvellir region of South Iceland, June 28th - July 4th. The Icelandair Horse Festivals - Landsmót are unique occasions: a climax and celebration for the Icelandic horse. One becomes caught up in the moment, as superb horses and riders demonstrate their [...]

Twelve members of Iceland's Parliament have introduced a bill aimed at lowering the cost of alcohol in Iceland. The bill, which would privatize the liquor industry and was sponsored by members of three different political parties. The bill would lead to a 50% reduction in taxes on alcohol over three years and make beer and [...]

Puffin Season (May) - Bird watchers and nature lovers alike flock every spring to the Westmann Islands (20 miles south of Iceland) to view the return of the Puffin, or Lundi in Icelandic, from its long winter at sea. During this time millions of Puffins, the clowns of the sea, return to nest with their [...]