Tag: Gdańsk
Large-scale smuggling of OxyContin was prevented
Five Polish smugglers tried to smuggle over four thousand tablets of OxyContin. The first two people arrived in the country on March 25 on the same flight from Gdańsk. One had 839 tablets hidden in his underwear, while the other found 851 tablets in a candy bag. The third of them arrived in Iceland on […]
Samherja employee transported by air ambulance from Gdańsk to Akureyri
A man who had an accident over the weekend during Samherji’s annual company trip to Gdańsk was taken to Akureyri by an air ambulance service. According to information from the company, the man suffered a serious fracture. Several hundred Samherja employees with accompanying persons went to Poland last weekend, where the company’s annual celebration took […]
“Direction: Iceland” in Gdańsk
In April, a year-and-a-half project of Polish-Icelandic artistic cooperation was launched – “Treasure Iceland – Theater Inclusions”, which will culminate in a week-long festival of theater and music events DIRECTION: ICELAND. “Treasure Iceland – Theater Inclusions” is a multidisciplinary project dedicated to the culture and art of Iceland, co-financed by the Financial Mechanism of the […]
20th anniversary of the Icelandic Polish Society
20 years ago, on November 4, 2001, a meeting of representatives of the company founded in 1998 took place at the Lækjarbrekka restaurant in Reykjavík. Icelandic-Polish Friendship Society (VÍP) with compatriots. It was chaired by the president of VÍP, Stanisław Bartoszek, who proposed establishing a representative office of the Polish diaspora in Iceland. The Icelandic […]
The memory of the sailors from the Wigry ship – an interview with Witold Bogdański
Iceland News Polska: You have made your next dream about the Wigry steamer come true. A cross and a list of victims of the January 1942 catastrophe appeared on the grave in the Fossvogur cemetery. This is the first list with correct data of victims 79 years after the tragedy. Witold Bogdański: It is very […]
‘Man in the Iron Mask’ motif the wrong option for Margrete I film
As a medieval historian, I would love to see films that are true to historical reality. But strictly historically accurate films released before 1500 would require many more scenes of plowing than Hollywood is currently willing to indulge. So what I do not want to do here is catalog the inaccuracies in the latest Margrete […]
People’s Party’s joke “totally distasteful”
The joke that Eyjólfur Ármannsson, leader of the People’s Party in the Northwest District, said during the Oddvitaáskorun Vísis program, was perceived by Internet users as an example of hate speech against Poles. The president of the Polish Society of Icelandic Society says the joke is completely tasteless. The leader of the People’s Party did […]
Faroe Islands – a new tourist and cultural guide, that is everything you want to know about life on Føroya
We had to wait a while for the publication, because the publishing plans in 2020 were thwarted by a pandemic. However, it was worth it, because both those who dream of their first trip to the Faroe Islands and their fierce fans will find a lot of interesting information in it. This is a new, […]
