Your roundup of the best recent blog posts and news articles about Iceland from across the globe.

Image: Suðureyri ~ Kermet

Iceland Review
Not Coming Home for Christmas
“By the time you read this I’ve either just had my baby, am giving birth or am about to (my due date is Christmas Day). I might also possibly be in an ambulance, stuck in snowdrift somewhere between Blönduós and Akureyri, the so-called Capital of the North.”

These are the best days of our lives
14,400 minutes and counting
“After the game a couple of the parents planned a surprise mystery trip for the team. We received a list of things we needed to bring with us but had no idea where we were going, which only made the trip more fun.”

Icelandish
Has it really been a month?
“Even though I’m only enrolled part-time in my Strategic Management masters programme at the U. of Iceland, the coursework for my two classes have been fairly intense.”

Iceland banking crisis news and more
Flag burned at a protest in Iceland – and Eva Joly signing book
“And today, Eva Joly, Norwegian-born French magistrate, who is a special adviser by the Icelandic government to investigate the banking crisis, was a few hundred feet from the protest, in a bookstore, signing here book.”

Image: Eva Joly signs her new book

Statistics Iceland
Immigrants and persons with foreign background 2009
“On 1 January 2009 immigrants in Iceland were 28,644, or 9% of the population. This is a different picture from 1996 when immigrants were 5,357, or 2% of the population. An immigrant in Iceland is a person born abroad with two foreign born parents and four foreign born grandparents.”

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