Iceland is one of the green list countries on the UK government s traffic light system for travel, We outline some of the top things to explore while visiting this remarkable island.
How to discover the northern delights of Iceland s Arctic Coast Way Will Hide
It certainly seems to be a trend. Shove some shiny signs next to a road, give it a hashtag-friendly name and voila it’s not just a highway, it’s an Instagrammable experience. Ireland did it with the Wild Atlantic Way, and Scotland with the North Coast 500. Now it’s the turn of northern Iceland, which in June launched the Arctic Coast Way, some 900km of road that skirts fishing villages, mountains, meadows and geothermal pools just below the Arctic Circle.
In part this marketing drive aims to draw tourists away from Reykjavik and the south-west of the country, which sees the bulk of visitors. In recent years many locals think Iceland has done too good a job of promoting itself and they worry vocally about overtourism.
WATCH: In Iceland, this village is basking in the glow of an Oscar-nominated song
By The Washington Post
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HUSAVIK, Iceland - This is a little folk tale with otherworldly elements, like elves. And gleaming golden statuettes.
It is also about some nice things that happened to a tiny town in Iceland, which improbably found itself the setting for a major Hollywood film - and now the namesake for an Academy Award nomination for best original song.
The 2020 Netflix comedy Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga isn t high art, for sure. A review of the reviews by critics on the website Rotten Tomatoes gave it 63 percent fresh rating. Robbie Collin in the Telegraph newspaper pronounced it, Not a film so much as two hours of lump-free, vaguely film-like audiovisual paste. It s not Nomadland.
This is a little folk tale with otherworldly elements, like elves. And gleaming golden statuettes. It is also about some nice things that happened to a tiny town in Iceland, which improbably found itself the setting for a major Hollywood film - and now the namesake for an Academy Award nomination for best original song. The 2020 Netflix comedy
Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga isn t high art, for sure. A review of the reviews by critics on the website Rotten Tomatoes gave it 63 per cent fresh rating. Robbie Collin in the Telegraph newspaper pronounced it, Not a film so much as two hours of lump-free, vaguely film-like audiovisual paste. It s not Nomadland”.
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