Reykjavík Grapevine - 03.06.2011, Qupperneq 40

River Rafting
on Hvítá River
from 7.990 ISK
Nature is the Adventure!
Arctic Rafting offers rafting trips on the Hvítá River, only 10 minutes
from the Geysir area. The trips start at 7.990 ISK and a variety of
combination tours are availble every day.
We can also pick you up from your hotel or hostel in Reykjavík. Call us
on +354-571-2200, meet us at Laugavegur 11 at Fjallakofinn outdoor
store or ask for us at your hotel or nearest tourist information center.
www.arcticrafting.com | info@arcticrafting.is | +354-571-2200 | Visit us at Fjallakofinn outdoor store Laugavegur 11
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PAGE 18
Looking for shelter, some sheep fell
into trenches and died. Others went
temporarily or permanently blind from
the ash.
There’s lots of tasty volcano coverage in
this issue... yum!
Page 24
And it's weird how endearing those
kitschy electro-pop songs have
turned out to be. ‘100% Pure Love’ by
Crystal Waters would have made me
cringe back in '95 but now I would
dance to it in a heartbeat. Maybe all
that the Euro-techno needed was to
age like blue cheese.
The new GusGus album is apparently
pretty great
PAGE 06
“Greenlandic authorities allow the
hunting of about 50 polar bears in
East Greenland each year, which
they deem to be a safe limit for the
stock. They have told us that they fail
to see the rationale behind shipping
stray polar bears alive from Iceland
to Greenland, given that this is a rare
occurrence and has no effect on the
species and its survival.”
Minister for the Environment Svandís
Svavarsdóttir explains Iceland’s polar bear
policy
PAGE 10
The crooks won by a landslide. Our
own Icelandic Conservatives could
easily put up such a list of candidates.
Would they win?
Former leader of the Icelandic Social-
Democratic Party Jón Baldvin Hanni-
balsson looks at similarities between the
happenings in Spain and Iceland.
PAGE 27
There’s a rich brass culture in the
English industrial North; every town
has its own brass band manned by
local coal miners. It’s a tradition that
dates back two-hundred-plus years.
The mines were, of course, closed in
the 1980s after the General Strikes;
Thatcher closed them all
Composer Jóhann Jóhannsson just com-
pleted a really interesting project!