The fifth in a series of light-hearted columns about life as a foreigner living in the Danish capital.

Written for IceNews by Simon Cooper

I saw something a few days ago which I hadn’t seen for about half a year in Copenhagen – the sun. Or at least sustained warm weather. Yep, after stashing themselves away through the so-branded ‘depressing’ winter months, huddling around candlelight, friends and family (otherwise known as ‘hygge’ – a steadfastly Danish concept), people have now begun to strut out of the woodwork and into the canal-side bars, the parks and of course the streets...

‘Botox parties’, where groups of women gather to inject themselves with the muscle paralysing agent, are becoming more popular in Finland, according to reports.

The trend of having treatments in groups first started in the US, spread to Helsinki and is now becoming more common in rural parts of Finland.

Botox, which works by paralysing facial muscles, is the most popular party procedure, but other dermal fillers and plumping agents are also being regularly injected.

“The field has really picked up,” said Mirja Halonen, a consultant at The Look beauty clinic, which has offices in a number of Fin...

Þríhnúkagígur, a dormant volcano in Iceland, and its accessible magma chamber will be open for tours this summer, giving travellers the opportunity to see what the inside of a volcano looks like.

The volcano is the only place on earth where the magma chamber is accessible and currently safe to explore. The size of its chamber is enormous; the ground space is equivalent to almost three full-sized basketball courts. The distance from top to bottom is about 150 meters (450 ft.).

The operation of this unique and exclusive tour, only available for a 6-8 week period this summer, is part of an..

Both of Iceland’s ruling coalition parties voted to pass the government’s new fisheries bill at their meetings yesterday. The bill will therefore be put to Alþingi for debate later this week.

Prime Minister (and Social Democrat leader) Jóhanna Sigurðardóttir and Minister of Fisheries and Agriculture (and Minister of Economic Affairs and leader of the Left Green Movement) Steingrímur J. Sigfússon introduced the bill at a press conference.

Steingrímur had to apologise at the meeting and say he hoped everybody could hear him; as he had chosen an inconvenient time to lose his voice...