Reykjavík Taxi Travel, a popular Iceland tour provider, is offering exciting tours to the Golden Circle, Iceland’s most sought after tourist route, for the upcoming summer months.

The Golden Circle is rich with some of Iceland’s greatest sights, including the world-famous Geysir geothermal area, a geothermal field where hot springs are in abundance and geysers explode. The Golden Circle is also home to the magnificent Gullfoss waterfall, and the rift valley of Þingvellir National Park, where the first Icelandic parliament, Althing, was established.

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SuperJeep.is, a leading Iceland tour provider, is now offering tours to the beautiful area of Landmannalaugar in combination with a stop-off at Mount Hekla – one of Iceland’s most active volcanoes.

Before reaching Landmannalaugar, the tour heads to Mount Hekla and then onto Þjórsárdalur, the valley through which Þjórsá, Iceland’s longest river, flows. Following this, tour participants get the chance to visit Ljótipollur, a volcanic crater filled with water where the rusty-red crater walls glisten and sparkle.

Upon arrival at Landmannalaugar, the rhyolite coloured mountains dominate...

The proposed national referendum on changes to the Icelandic constitution will not now go ahead at the same time as this June’s presidential election. Parliament could not organise a vote in time.

The referendum was due to go ahead on 30th June, at the same time as the presidential election.

Now Vísir.is reports that Alþingi did not manage to pass a vote on a resolution about the referendum and such public consultations have to be organised with three or more months’ notice; meaning the deadline has now expired.

There was heavy debate in the parliamentary chamber and strong...

New Zealand’s transport minister has apologised for insulting Finland, claiming his remarks were sarcastic and just made in jest.

During a debate, Gerry Brownlee said the country “has worse unemployment than us, has less economic growth than us, can hardly feed the people who live there, has a terrible homicide rate, hardly educates its people, and has no respect for women.”

Finnish President Sauli Niinistö has already received an apology from New Zealand Prime Minister John Key, but Brownlee claims no harm was intended.

“I apologise for them taking offence, but it was meant to be...