I paid $1,700 to visit Iceland. Horrible weather meant I couldn't see the Northern Lights, but I found 5 other ways to have a good time.

The shortlist for this year’s world’s best aerial photography has been chosen, featuring five nominees in each of the nine categories. The winners of the Drone Photo Awards will be announced at a ceremony in Siena, Italy on 28 September 2024. The annual competition is open to professional and amateur photographers and is judged by a jury of five international professional photographers, filmmakers and curators.

Helsinki gears up to host the prestigious MICHELIN Guide Nordic Countries Ceremony, marking its rise as a top culinary destination with a summer full of food-centric events.

To obtain a visa for Türkiye, digital nomads can easily initiate their application process from the Digital Nomad Pre-Application platform Digital Nomad GoTürkiye. After completing the requirements on this platform, which is just the first step of the process, digital nomads will receive a “Digital Nomad Identification Certificate”. With the certificate they receive from the platform, digital nomads need to continue their process at the Turkish consulates and/or visa centres.

It's that time of year again—spring is finally turning into summer and travelers are excitedly planning their next great vacation. As we celebrate Memorial Day weekend, the last hurrah before the official beginning of the summer season, we can't forget about the many great travel deals that are popping up this week. From PLAY's Memorial Day flash sale to Cruise Croatia's 20 percent off savings for active and retired military, there is no shortage of great deals.

In April 2024, Icelandair reported a 4% increase in passengers, transporting 307 thousand individuals. The company’s strategic focus on flexible routing and robust revenue management has facilitated an 11% increase in capacity, alongside an enhanced on-time performance of 88.3%.

Icelandic budget carrier Play is observing Memorial Day with a special flash sale, which offers travelers the chance to book one-way flights to Europe for as low as $99. This promotion, which ends at 12:00 a.m. ET on May 27, covers travel dates from August through December 2024. It also extends to some of the Continent’s most sought-after destinations, including such as France, England, Iceland, Ireland, Germany, Greece and others.

The heatwaves that have swept over southern and central Europe in recent summers have led many travelers to consider an adventure trip further to the north, specifically to the Nordic countries — including Norway, Sweden, Denmark, and the Faroe Islands. While climate change has wreaked havoc on forecasts, there’s a reasonable expectation that summer in Oslo or Stockholm should be a bit more temperate than in Rome or Athens. Here’s a look at five Nordic adventures to consider this summer.

Where the land of Fire and Ice meets the land of Warhol and Whiskey, the Southeastern city of Pennsylvania is even more accessible to UK & Ireland travellers. From today until 27 October 2024, the new seasonal Icelandair service will offer 4x weekly flights from Iceland to Pittsburgh.

The EU's post-Brexit Entry-Exit System (EES) was originally supposed to launch in 2022, then was rescheduled for May 2023 before being pushed back even further to the end of last year.

It would be incorrect to describe Iceland's Play Airlines as a startup anymore. Launched in 2021 during the height of the coronavirus pandemic, the airline is on the cusp of its third summer under the leadership of a new CEO.

Due to a solar storm, auroras could be seen across the skies of many portions of the United States, which ranged from Maine and California to even Florida.

It’s been a dazzling spectacle of the Aurora Borealis, or Northern Lights, since Friday, May 11, across the night sky of the U.S., Canada and Europe, high-energy particles from the sun interacting with the earth's magnetic field to cause dazzling and mesmerizing geomagnetic storms.