Iceland’s low-cost carrier, Iceland Express, will offer a new service between Winnipeg, Manitoba, and London-Gatwick via Reykjavik this summer.
It starts June 12 and tickets are expected to cost £467 return ($700 CDN).
Iceland Express will also offer new services from London Gatwick to New York and Akureyri.
The UK’s second-city, Birmingham, will also have flights to Reykjavik.
The Winnipeg route is one of significance due to the number of Icelanders and Icelandic descendants living in the area.
Iceland Express web site.

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

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

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.

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 …

In the second and final part of our interview with Jackson Crawford, Iceland News moves away from Star Wars to find out more about Crawford’s background. READ PART ONE HERE.
Saunders: How did you come to settle on Icelandic and Old Norse as an area of study?
Crawford: Well, I could tell that in a pretty long story, and I’m not sure how long of a story you want. I’ll try to keep it short. I was a dinosaur kid, interested especially in how dinosaurs evolved. When it came time to decide …