The day tends to start off on a solemn and patriotic note, but by the afternoon the mood changes and the fun breaks out. Everyone takes the day off to be entertained by street performances, theatre, fire-eaters and to enjoy the real festival atmosphere.
Each town and village celebrates in their own way so it is advisable to check locally for details. This is such a popular date that it has been chosen for most major events of historical importance, the greatest being the establishment of the independent republic in 1944.
Have a look at this too, if you´d like to view some marvellous photos of today´s festivities:
2 comments:
nice sleepy lil town:)
Hi Squere...
you´re wrong...the eskimos, or the Inuits, as they like to be called, live up in Greenland, which I know, sounds mudh warmer than Iceland...
guess that´s why Erik the Red named it so, for commercial reasons, luring people to go there...
Hrafnaflóki on the other hand thought Iceland was so nice that he just wanted it to himself and his family, so that´s why he called it Iceland...
That´s what my teacher told me at school, anyway, a long time ago.
Hi Dezerai...
you should be in down-town Reykjavík on an ordimary weekend, I´m convinced you´d not find it sleepy at all, in fact I think you would find it very hard to sleep!
And especially so now in June with it not getting dark at all during the night, due to the midnight-sun.
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