2025:04 - Melting roads, Reykjavík Sex Club, NATO, J.D. Vance & The World of Yesterday

02/20/25 • 52 min

Are you enjoying this? Are you not? Tell us what to do more of, and what you'd like to hear less of.

The Reykjavík Grapevine's Iceland Roundup brings you the top news with a healthy dash of local views.
In this episode, Grapevine publisher Jón Trausti Sigurðarson is joined by Heimildin journalist Aðalsteinn Kjartansson, and Grapevine friend and contributor Sindri Eldon to roundup the stories making headlines in recent weeks.
On the docket this week are:
✨ Melting asphalt on roads in west Iceland & infrastructure issues in general.
✨ Iceland's first ever Sex Club is opening soon in Reykjavík. Or is it?
✨ NATO has hit a fork in the road. J. D. Vance's speech in Munich confirms arising fears on the future of that organisation. Is the world order of the past 80 years at an end? And as with the rest of Europe, Iceland's security is now uncertain. Is the USA's promise to keep Iceland safe worth anything by now? Should we just invite Trump to join our new Sex Club?

------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
SHOW SUPPORT
Support the Grapevine's reporting by becoming a member of our High Five Club: https://steadyhq.com/en/rvkgrapevine/
You can also support the Grapevine by shopping in our online store: https://shop.grapevine.is
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

This is a Reykjavík Grapevine podcast.
The Reykjavík Grapevine is a free alternative magazine in English published 18 times per year, biweekly during the spring and summer, and monthly during the autumn and winter.

The magazine covers everything Iceland-related, with a special focus culture, music, food and travel. The Reykjavík Grapevine’s goal is to serve as a trustworthy and reliable source of information for those living in Iceland, visiting Iceland or interested in Iceland. Thanks to our dedicated readership and excellent distribution network, the Reykjavík Grapevine is Iceland’s most read English-language publication.

You may not agree with what we write or publish, but at least it’s not sponsored content.
www.grapevine.is

Are you enjoying this? Are you not? Tell us what to do more of, and what you'd like to hear less of.

You may not agree with what we write or publish, but at least it’s not sponsored content.
www.grapevine.is

Previous Episode

2025:03 - Trouble in Reykjavík, Teacher's strike, The problem with pension funds and sour ram testicles

Are you enjoying this? Are you not? Tell us what to do more of, and what you'd like to hear less of.

The Reykjavík Grapevine's Iceland Roundup brings you the top news with a healthy dash of local views.
In this episode, Grapevine publisher Jón Trausti Sigurðarson is joined by Heimildin journalist Aðalsteinn Kjartansson, and Grapevine friend and contributor Sindri Eldon to roundup the stories making headlines in recent weeks.
On the docket this week are:
✨ Reykjavík's Mayor Einar Þorsteinsson blows up ruling coalition.
✨ Having an airport in Reykjavík is not good for trees. And we're short on trees.
✨ Teachers on strike in Iceland (or not).
✨ Pension fund cross-ownership in Iceland. Pension funds were the solution, are they now the problem?
✨ Two midwinter feasts, where Icelanders eat traditional food; sour whale, sour ram testicles, rotten shark etc., result in a food poisoning. How does bad food go bad?
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
SHOW SUPPORT
Support the Grapevine's reporting by becoming a member of our High Five Club: https://steadyhq.com/en/rvkgrapevine/
You can also support the Grapevine by shopping in our online store: https://shop.grapevine.is
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

You may not agree with what we write or publish, but at least it’s not sponsored content.
www.grapevine.is

Next Episode

2025:05 - Teacher''s strike, football bus, PM in Kyiv, broke airlines & melting glaciers

Are you enjoying this? Are you not? Tell us what to do more of, and what you'd like to hear less of.

The Reykjavík Grapevine's Iceland Roundup brings you the top news with a healthy dash of local views. In this episode, Grapevine publisher Jón Trausti Sigurðarson is joined by Heimildin journalist Aðalsteinn Kjartansson, and Grapevine friend and contributor Sindri Eldon to roundup the stories making headlines in recent weeks. On the docket this week are:
✨ Teacher’s strike; negotiations in turmoil, municipalities discussing coming the separate deals with Teacher’s Union. What’s next?
✨ A local football team’s bus vandalized. Perpetrators unknown.
✨ Iceland’s PM in Kyiv while Iceland’s Minister of Foreign Affairs is in Geneva on Monday, marking the 3rd year since Russia’s invasion began. Announced that aid the Ukraine will be doubled and that aid money will be used to buy arms.
✨Tourism still booming, but the Icelandic airlines can’t seem to make money flying people to Iceland. Who’s paying for their huge losses?
✨ Iceland’s glaciers have melted fast in the past decade but are melting slower than during the previous decade. Is this good news?

You may not agree with what we write or publish, but at least it’s not sponsored content.
www.grapevine.is