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Icelandic Bathing Culture Exhibit

From a Failed Gold Rush to Hot Tubs: How Icelandic Bathing Culture Evolved

April 25, 2022 Jewells Chambers All Things Iceland Episodes, Culture, History 32:41 2 Comments

In partnership with the Icelandic Bathing Culture Exhibit hosted at Hönnurnarsafn, the Icelandic Museum for Design and Applied Arts, I’m sharing how Iceland’s beloved bathing culture evolved. Sund, which is the name of the Icelandic Bathing Exhibit, shares fascinating facts. One of my favorites is that a failed gold rush in Iceland is what led…

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Easter in Iceland: Everything You Need to Know Before Visiting

April 18, 2022 Jewells Chambers All Things Iceland Episodes, Culture, Holidays 26:31 0 Comments

Easter in Iceland is a time that many Icelanders look forward to because they get a long holiday, and they get to indulge in even more chocolate, sugary drinks, and delicious food. Here is what you should know before visiting during this holiday. Religion in Iceland For most people around the world that celebrate Easter,…

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Kyana’s Fight Against Being Deported From Iceland

April 7, 2022 Jewells Chambers All Things Iceland Episodes, Interviews 0 Comments

Kyana Sue Powers is an American content creator that lives in Iceland. She’s inspired many people to visit Iceland and has even inspired some to move. Due to strict Icelandic laws regarding specialty work visas, Kyana is potentially facing deportation. In this interview, Kyana shares how to she ended up in Iceland and the situation…

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Iceland more vegan friendly than you think

Iceland is More Vegan Friendly Than You Think

April 5, 2022 Jewells Chambers All Things Iceland Episodes, Culture, Places to Visit 21:22 0 Comments

Contrary to what most people believe, Iceland has a lot of options for people who identify as vegan or plant-based eaters. I remember being astonished at the options in the grocery stores during my first visit back in 2013. Funny enough, that was the first time I’d heard about Veganuary (vegan January). Icelanders who normally…

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Interview with April Anderson – Director of the Fire & Iceland Documentary

March 18, 2022 Jewells Chambers All Things Iceland Episodes, History, Interviews 0 Comments

April Anderson is the Director, editor, and cinematographer of the documentary “Fire & Iceland”, a beautiful collection of the eruption and insight from locals about the impact of the eruption and living on an island with so much volcanic activity. April and her husband are the creators of www.artasair.com, which showcases various artists and aspect…

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Jeroen Van Nieuwenhove Icelandic eruption interview - All Things Iceland

Belgian Pro Photographer that Visited the Icelandic Volcano 44 Times

March 17, 2022 Jewells Chambers All Things Iceland Episodes, Culture, Interviews, Places to Visit 52:50 0 Comments

Jeroen Van Nieuwenhove is an award-winning photographer and author of the book “New Earth: A Photographic Journey of the Geldingadalur Eruption.” He is a Belgian nature photographer, who specializes in photographing wildlife and landscapes with great passion. He has been living in Reykjavik, Iceland since 2016 and uses it as his base to explore and…

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Celebrating the 1 Year Anniversary of Iceland’s Volcanic Eruption

March 16, 2022 Jewells Chambers All Things Iceland Episodes, History 12:00 0 Comments

March 19th, 2022 marks the one year anniversary of the start of the Geldingadalir eruption on the Reykjanes Peninsula. The eruption lasted six months and, according to scientists, is the longest eruption of this century in Iceland! To commemorate this momentous occasion, I am hosting “Eruption Week” on the All Things Iceland YouTube channel and…

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From Brazil to Iceland – Georg Leite’s Experience Living in the Land of Fire & Ice

March 9, 2022 Jewells Chambers All Things Iceland Episodes, Culture, Interviews 1:10:23 0 Comments

Gerog Leite is Afro-Brazilian and came to Iceland way back when he was 16 years old. I witnessed first-hand his gregarious nature during my first visit to Kaldi Bar, a place he owns and manages, many years ago. It’s funny how I wondered about his story as I watched him from afar chatting with people…

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Iceland Has Lifted All COVID Restrictions – Here is what to Expect

February 25, 2022 Jewells Chambers All Things Iceland Episodes, Icelandic News 9:43 0 Comments

Even though the Health Minister had hinted at removing all restrictions, I honestly didn‘t think it would happen now because of the continued high rate of infections in the country. In the last couple of weeks, the number of new COVID cases has broken records. We have seen numbers way higher than when the pandemic…

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Tryggvi Rúnar Jr Interview - All Things Iceland

Iceland‘s Most Infamous Criminal Investigation

February 22, 2022 Jewells Chambers All Things Iceland Episodes, History, Interviews 1:17:39 0 Comments

Tryggvi Rúnar jr is named after his grandfather, who is one of the wrongly accused and convicted individuals in Iceland’s most infamous criminal investigation. In 1974, two men, on separate occasions, went missing and their bodies were never found. The police scrambled to figure out what happened to Guðmundur Einarsson and Geirfinnur Einarsson (not related)….

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