Iceland review - 2015, Page 5

PHOTO BY PÁLL STEFÁNSSON.
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RESTAURANT & DELIC ATESSEN
CONTENTS
4 FROM THE EDITOR

6 BEST 5K YET!
Mayor of Reykjavík Dagur B. Eggertsson
writes about his experiences of the first Color
Run.
8 AGE OF EQUALITY
On June 19, Icelanders celebrated the 100th
anniversary of women’s suffrage.
10 CULTURAL CURIOSITIES
A review of three recent Icelandic releases in
film, literature and music.
12 FAMOUS FIVE AND A DOG
An unfinished museum building is proving an
original venue for five of Iceland’s foremost
artists reflecting on water, movement and
time in their exhibition Listería.
14 YOUNG AND EAGER
Mark Asch asks comic, playwright and
actress Saga Garðarsdóttir ten questions
about the Icelandic stand-up scene and the
state of the arts.
16 ON TOP OF THE WORLD
Acclaimed film director Baltasar Kormákur
tells Zoë Robert about his career and
upcoming movie Everest, which will open the
2015 Venice Film Festival.
22 WILD WEST
For his latest landscape series, Páll
Stefánsson goes hunting for the midnight sun
in the West Fjords, making new discoveries.
30 NATURE’S ADVOCATE
Director of the University of Iceland’s
Institute for Sustainability Studies Dr. Guðrún
Pétursdóttir talks energy, pollution and the
environment, and efforts towards a more sus-
tainable future.
36 HERITAGE PRESERVED
Zoë Robert and photographer Áslaug
Snorradóttir travel to the remote and
long-abandoned Hornstrandir region, finding
out why people choose to spend their sum-
mers there.
42 HOT SPRINGS, SPORTS, AND
SUMMER SOLSTICE
Elliott Brandsma attends the 16th Games of
the Small States of Europe and the second
annual Secret Solstice festival, hosted in
Reykjavík’s Laugardalur valley this summer.
48 MASSACRE REMEMBERED
Four hundred years ago, 31 Basque whalers
were brutally murdered in the West Fjords.
Eygló Svala Arnarsdóttir digs into the depths
of history.
ICELAND REVIEW / ATLANTICA
54 LITTLE PIECE OF ETHIOPIA
In the quiet South Iceland countryside is a
culinary surprise: Minilik restaurant, serving
dishes otherwise seen on the streets of Addis
Ababa.
57 MID-TERM BLUES
Halldór Lárusson discusses the government’s
achievements and mishaps half-way through
the term.
62 THE MISTS OF FLATEY
In North Iceland’s Skjálfandi bay, surrounded
by birds, whales and a mystical fog, lies a
secluded island; a paradise retreat for those
who know about it.
67 SUPPLEMENT – VESTNORDEN
Iceland Review covers the highlights of the
2015 Vestnorden Travel Mart and the hottest
tours and destinations in Iceland, Greenland
and the Faroe Islands.
96 LAST PAGE
Not your usual wedding portrait.
Hornstrandir in bloom.
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