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[29 Apr 2010 | One Comment | ]
Iceland News Podcast: Episode 3 : Mountain climbing around Reykjavik with Guthrun Helga.

In our third episode, Iceland News talks to Guðrún Helga Sigurðardóttir.
She runs her own mountain climbing business from Reykjavik, Mountainclimbing.is. Guðrún Helga is also a freelance journalist who had an opportunity to fly into the ash cloud to report on the recent volcanic eruption.
Guðrún Helga maintains a blog: Travels in Iceland

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[23 Apr 2010 | No Comment | ]
Iceland News Podcast: Now available on iTunes.

You’ll be able to subscribe and download the latest Iceland News podcasts direct from the Apple iTunes store. To do this click here: http://itunes.apple.com/podcast/id369280789

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[21 Apr 2010 | 2 Comments | ]
Iceland News Podcast: Episode 2 : Icelandic music history across North America with Bjarki Sveinbjornsson

In the second episode of the Iceland News podcast we talk to the director of Iceland’s music history museum, Bjarki Sveinbjornsson.
We find out about what the museum does and means for the country as well as finding out about Sveinbjornsson’s many trips to North America to record Icelandic music history there.

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[14 Apr 2010 | No Comment | ]

Iceland News is providing updates and coverage of Iceland’s new, and more serious, volcanic eruption from its Twitter account and Facebook fan page.
Twitter: @icelandnews
Facebook: Iceland News Facebook fan page

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[10 Apr 2010 | No Comment | ]
Iceland News Podcast : Episode 1 : “Running to Reykjavik”

In our first episode Iceland News talks to Carrie Simmons. She’s a Canadian of Icelandic descent and she’ll be returning to Iceland for the first time this summer to run in the Reykjavik marathon. We find out what it’s like to grow up in Canada with such a background and her trips to Gimli, Manitoba, as a youngster (home to the largest concentration of people of Icelandic ancestry outside Iceland).

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[4 Apr 2010 | 4 Comments | ]

If you follow news out of Iceland and you’ve not heard of the volcanic eruption of the past few weeks then what rock have you been living under?
There’s not a minute goes by within a new tweet about it.
And they keep on flowing.
English language media in the country (The Reykjavik Grapevine, Iceland Weather Report and Iceland Review) have jumped on the volcano bandwagon to varying degrees. While most have provided great coverage (The Iceland Weather Report), I’d argue Reykjavik Grapevine has come out on top. Just watch out for Ice …