Springtime and summer festival

Springtime festival in Eyrarbakki "Springtime in Arborg" start 22.05 and end 24.05 Culture & art
Fisherman's Days 5-7. jun Outdor drama
Midsummer's festival in Eyrarbakki 26.-28 jun. Dancing around the fire.
The museum day 12. jul. Old thing's
The Village festival 14.-16 aug. Put you'r things on the market

Comfortable place to camp

Eyrarbakki will go back to the past.

The old 19 th century town will be open for cultural heritage institutions and tourism institutions for the future. Eyrarbakki cultural contents to museums, library and also handwork gallerys. Eyrarbakki stay also open for old-fashioned virtual reality for turism in next sommer. This culture festival start in 25 of august. There the traveller can experience this old town with the old houses and old things like him stay there early in the age of 1900 and also the peoble will work on the street like in the old-days. “ There you can stay for a while in un-technologies world and be part of it” the native say!

Iceland’s central bank governor in showdown with PM

The Financial Times say that Iceland’s week-old government was locked in its first serious crisis on Monday after the governor of the central bank accused it of instigating a “political attack” against him and angrily rejected a demand by the new prime minister to resign.
David Oddsson, a feisty former prime minister and architect of the free market reforms that revolutionised Iceland’s economy and then contributed to its collapse, was reacting to a letter from the new prime minister demanding his resignation to take responsibility for the crisis.

ft.com

mbl.is/tv from revolt against the governor of the central bank.

See also: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/7871256.stm

New Icelandic Government formed

A Government of the Social Democratic Alliance and the Left-Green Movement takes office today. It aims to assure an effective administration to carry out urgent measures, particularly for the benefit of households and business, for rebuilding the banking system, in the field of administrative reform and to carry out measures in favour of increased democracy.

Ten ministers will take seat in the new government, five men and five women. Two of the minsiters are not members of parliament.
Prime minister of the new government is Johanna Sigurdardottir of the SDA.

More: BBC

Eyrarbakki become white

Last night was that beoutiful snow on Eyrarbakki. The grass straw were frozen as the type of glass. Further away screaming great surf white as snow,against the dark sky.

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After the "Frying pan-revolt"

Iceland's coalition government has collapsed under the strain of an escalating economic crisis.

Conservative Prime Minister Geir Haarde announced the resignation of his cabinet, after talks with his Social Democratic coalition partners failed. BBC

Heated up for new year

We greetings in 2008 with flares and fire. This year was not our best. With us was a large earthquake. Then came the economic crisis and many performance work. We do not know what happens next. But we are going to deal with it all. We will never give up. We always feel free look into the future and hope that 2009 will be better.

Age from birthday

To day is 100 year from birth of the Eyrabakki famous sculptorist Sigurjón Ólafson.

On the occasion of this, the cildren and teacher in the Iceland oldest childrenschool in our town walking with torch to procession to the greath statue Sterna paradisaea.(Kría)

Earthenware handiwork

Two Icelandic woman from Eyrarbakki handiwork pottery and something work of art in Icelandic clay.

Many artist live in Eyrarbakki and put on the market over the summertime in the towns Gallery's.

Cool Iceland

It's not only the Icelandic economic who Queek frosen this days. Here we can see a farm close by Eyrarbakki with the white volcano Hekla in behind.

Nowdays traveller be interest to visit Iceland in the wintertimes to have fun times in the snow and ice.

Autumn

The sheep have been free of Icelandic mountains all summer, but now have farmers run sheep down in the countryside on their good horses. Some sheep go in the house during the winter, but others go to slaughter server.

Farm in Eyrarbakki. winter is near

Falling wave's

Big wave coming in this days after a Atlantic stormy weather. It’s like the Icelandic economic system as now going in the sky-hi wave’s circumstances after the big finances storm. Our people belive we can find the way to the level ocean in the time.

No longer fishingtown.

In a long time Eyrarbakki be a fisherman town, but no longer. Now we only look after fishingboat from other pleaces take round against the willage and the sailors on this ship look over to this old originator Icelandic fishing.

It not be easy in the old day's to fishing from Eyrarbakki. Big surf and stormy weather make many times a broblem to the shipping company and many times them ship run aground.

Last summer, in pictures

In June was held the summer festival and the population took part in the joy. On the large fire and old and young sang several old anthem and dance with fire.

The National Day was made a lot of fun and the children got to ride a beautiful Icelandic horses.

On 29th May not be a good day at Eyrarbakki. We got the 6.5 earthquake and many many smaller by earthquakes. Fortunately, no one hurt and no houses collapsed, many damaged, some very, other small and some damaged nothing. All get added damage from the state. People, however, was much afraid of the earthquake. Everyone knew, however, that earthquake would come someday.

The people started the summer with stories and poems that were glued on light stakes and made a great success the walking people.

Byrds gon away.

Over the summer Eyrarbakki have many flying guests. Many species of birds, large and small from various European countries have a stopover here or make a nest. When autumn comes, they gathered together and gather the energy to fly back across the Atlantic south a hoter countries.

Hot spring.

Peoble waiting after the Summer. Will this sommer be hot like last yerar? Or will this summer have rain like in the old day's. We see what happen.

Eyrarbakki news be on holiday all this summer.
Be back in autumn.

Surftime be off.

In the entire winter, we enjoyed the great surf sound, which for us is soothing music that's easy to sleep with a dark winter evening. Now the great surf said bye and we have to wait until the next fall to watch the big waves and listen to the great music.

Parking place fixing

After the last winter and lot of surf and stormy weather it must fixing the parking place with the seashore.

This winter starting with surf.

Time of the surf is started and the population listen to the sound of the Sea. Eyrarbakki can offer great beauty of the surf as tremendously sound like a thousand Thunders.

One soldier from the town.

This amazon is Icelandic soldier. She is from our village and has worked for peace in war country. Her father is a pastor and her mother is a nurse. The people of village are very proud to have the one female soldier in Iceland.