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On the cover:
Chilling out on Newbury Street, Boston. Photo by Páll Stefánsson.
7 UNPRECEDENTED SUCCESS
Address from Icelandair president and CEO
Sigurdur Helgason.
9 AIRMAIL
This and that from here and there.
20 BOSTON COMMON
Considered the most European city in the US, Boston
attracts visitors from across the globe. Edward
Weinman finds out why, and along the way spots
a movie star, plus a couple of real-life spies.
Photographs by Páll Stefánsson.
28 POWER PENINSULA
Jules Verne wrote about it in “Journey to the Centre
of the Earth”. Alien hunters have gathered around it,
waiting for a close encounter with space travellers.
Mystics claim it has an energy field that heals. Isn’t
it time you visited Iceland’s Snæfellsnes peninsula,
asks Edward Weinman. Photographs by Páll
Stefánsson.
34 HARVESTING THE WIND
Iceland’s quickly becoming a Mecca for wind sports,
writes Edward Weinman, and kite-boarding year-round
on Iceland’s glaciers is this year’s hottest sport.
Photographs by Páll Stefánsson and Fred Pattou.
38 CAVE MAN
Iceland is full of lava caves. In the name of environ-
mental preservation, one local caver wants to make
the Thríhnjúkagígur (Three Peaks) cave accessible to
even the most gawky visitor. By Edward Weinman.
Photographs by Árni B. Stefánsson.
43 I-SITE
Ideas and info in Iceland.
56 THE ATLANTICA INQUISITION
Not only does he co-host one of Iceland’s most-
watched TV shows, the life-style youth program “At”,
Vilhelm (Villi) Anton Jónsson also fronts the popular
band 200,000 Naglbítar (Nail Pliers). The former
philosophy student sits down with Atlantica maga-
zine.
58 ICELAND BUSINESS NEWS
Atlantica’s update on Iceland’s top business stories.
60 TAX AND DUTY-FREE SPECIAL
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67 WELCOME ABOARD
In-flight films and music, company notes, destination
information, domestic route map/facts about
Iceland,US immigration and customs information,
international route map and flight bar.
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