November 19, 2009
What’s the drooping Dollar and British Pound mean for US and UK travellers? A journey to the most European countries has become more expensive in the last year. But there is one big exception: Iceland! The country in the north Atlantic ocean has seen its banks collapse and nearly has gone bankrupt. Today the Icelandic krona is worth less than one US penny or 0.0049 GBP.
What about visiting Iceland next year and experience the great nature with volcanoes, geysers, deserts and wide fjords? On the one hand you can take a plane to get there. But of course it’s more recreative to take a ferry to Iceland. Today the ships from Europe to Iceland are both ferry and cruise ships, so that you can enjoy your yourney from the first day on. The only scheduled connection between central Europe and Iceland is from Denmark. So if you want to get to Iceland by ferry from the UK, you have to go from Harwich to Esjberg in Denmark first. But when arriving in Iceland, you will be more relaxed and you will save money, because you can go around with your own vehicle and it’s not necessary to rent a car.
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September 24, 2008
The Corruption Perception Index (CPI) is issued annually by the Transparency International Organization and was published this week again. The index ranks countries on a scale of zero to ten according to their perceived levels of corruption, with a higher score indicating less perceived corruption.
Iceland achieved a score of 8.9, which indicates a very low corruption. Sweden, Denmark and New Zealand. Finland reached the highest score in the new survey. ranks at 9.0 points. Norway ranked lowest of all the northern countries with a score of 7.9. The lowest ranked country in this year’s index is Somalia at 1.0.
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September 9, 2008
By the beginning of the new term more than 20,000 students were enrolled to universities in Iceland. This is a record number of students in Iceland. All together there are eight institutions of higher education in the country with the largest one in Reykjavik (University of Iceland), where 13,600 students are enrolled right now.
There were 17,449 university students in Iceland in 2007. This year that number has grown to 20,300. The University of Akureyri in North Iceland reports 60 additional students since last year with a total student number of 1,400.
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August 26, 2008
The Icelandic handball team lost against France in the final at the Beijing Olympics. But now they are taking home the silver in handball for the very first time.
This is the second silver medal Iceland won at all at the Olymptic Games and the fourth medal overall. Only once before Vilhjálmur Einarsson has won the silver in 1956 in Melbourne. In Los Angeles 1984 and in Sydney 2000 two Icelandic athletes won the bronze.
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July 30, 2008
By the end of July 2008 temperatures rose above 20°C in a lot of parts of Iceland. On 29th July in Thingvellir the temperature reached 27°C which is a new record of this summer and the highest temperature since many years. As a result, Nauthólsvík the thermal beach in Reykjavik and swimming pools all over the country were crowded during the past few days. Usually the warmest summer days can reach 20-25°C Iceland. The absolutely highest temperatures recorded at around +30.5°C in 1939 on the southeastern coast.
Iceland weather forcast
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