Nordic Travel Guides

The wave of strikes which recently engulfed the public sector in Norway are now over, everywhere except Oslo.
Despite the expectation that the strikes might drag on for weeks, the state negotiator, Dag Nafstad, was able to hammer out an agreement between the Unio union and KS, the organisation representing the municipal employers.
This news means that […]

Forest fires have been raging out of control in the north of Sweden for a week, according to reports in The Local.
With the work of 100 fire fighters and seven helicopters, the blazes are thought to finally be under control and close to being extinguished.
“Even if we are getting there, we can’t say we have […]

A polar bear which was found wondering in north Iceland was shot yesterday by the authorities. The bear, an adult male weighing around 250kg, is presumed to have swum from Greenland or from a distant chunk of Arctic ice.
The decision to shoot the polar bear was agreed to by the Environment Minister Thorunn Sveinbjarnardottir […]

Bradford & Bingley International, a specialist provider of offshore savings accounts for British expats, has announced it will leave the interest rate of its top online savings account unchanged, despite two recent cuts in the Bank of England base rate.
The online eSaver account will retain its 6.40 percent interest rate for expatriate savers investing from […]

TellMeTwin.com is a brand new website developed in Iceland which allows users to build up a bank of personality ‘twins’ from all over the world.
Tell Me Twin uses a sophisticated range of personality tests and online self psychoanalysis (the rating of likes & dislikes), and then compares results using a rigid and ingenious set […]

Practical, an Iceland based event management and corporate travel company, is pushing forward with plans to move into the international event management market.
Practical is well-known in Iceland for organising some of the country’s largest corporate events to date – having presided over everything from office moves to product launches and executive trips to Greenland.
In addition […]

Gustavsberg has added a photo to the pool:

Gustavsberg’s brand new collection Coloric is unique as it is the first aluminium mixer collection ever on the market. Elegant design, cool colours and environmental friendliness are all combined in Coloric. The Coloric mixers are made of coloured aluminium without lead and can therefore be recycled. The Coloric taps are also equipped with water saving technique.

By: Azfar A. Khan (Mr.)
Due to astronomical rises in oil prices in the international market, the cost of production of electricity is also rising day by day. Hence, it’s imperative to adopt some other methods for the production of electricity. This article dwells on the generation of electricity through wind and focuses on manufacturing of […]

The Swedish government minister for financial markets, Mats Odell, said last Friday that there are no problems with liquidity at the major Icelandic banks. His comments come on the back of the recent loan facility offered to Iceland by the central banks of Denmark, Norway and Sweden.
“We have not seen any problems with liquidity when […]

British businesses are in trouble, as they may have been inadvertently driving away potential customers with their insensitive and Neolithic approach to confectionery, according to a BBC report.
Four in five British businesses believe that the biscuits (cookies, for our American readers) on offer can have a significant effect on the outcome of a meeting.
The Holiday […]

It has been revealed that almost a third of British people would not feel comfortable wearing a hearing aid, compared to over 80 per cent who wouldn’t object to wearing glasses.
Responding to the poll which was carried out for Siemens Hearing, audiologist Rob Ryman said, “The majority of Brits seem to be stuck in a […]

Det islandske lavpris flyselskab Iceland Express, tilbyder besøgende på deres hjemmeside at sende ”sok film” til deres venner.
På icelandsocks.com, bliver de besøgende instruktører af deres egen islandske filmstjerner i form af et par talende sokker!
Vælg sokkerne du vil have som stjerner i din film, giv dem navne og vælg location. Du skal også skrive underteksterne, […]

A research report published by Glitnir Bank has set out to demystify the future of the Icelandic economy.
The Nordic bank predicts that growth in the Icelandic economy will be negligible this year and next, but that the economy can expect to expand significantly in 2010 (3.8 percent) and 2011 (4.6 percent).
The two year cooling down […]

The debate over Iceland’s adoption of the euro is raging on and has taken on new meaning given the krona’s difficult year so far. For some, adopting a new currency could help offset the effects of the global credit crunch and bolster Iceland’s economic system. For others it means giving up autonomy, an important value […]

The head of Finland’s Defence Forces, Admiral Juhani Kaskeala, said that Finland needed more female recruits. On Saturday the Admiral said that women could serve in crisis management operations as well as with regular troops.
Adm Kaskeala believes that women should have an equal obligation to appear in front of call-up boards although he did attest […]