French Skippers and French Days 6. júlí 2006 13:07 The annual Skippers d Islande race is currently taking place, a boat race from Paimpol in France to Reykjavík, Iceland. The race was founded to commemorate the French fishermen who came to Iceland at the end of the nineteenth century to fish. The boat race set off from France on June 24th and the skippers arrived in Reykjavik yesterday. Today the Alliance Francaise invites them to a welcome drink and the crews of the boats will walk up the Laugavegur main shopping street at 18.30. On Friday and Saturday "French Days" will be taking place in the city, a promotion of French products organised by the French-Icelandic Chamber of Commerce. The boats leave for Grundarfjörður, west Iceland on Saturday at 13.00 and return to France on July 21st to finish the race. For further info visit www.skippersdislande.com News News in English Mest lesið Björk styður æskuvinkonu sína sem sætir svívirðingum Innlent Bein útsending: Mótmæla handtöku Möggu Stínu Innlent Magga Stína handtekin í nótt af Ísraelsher Innlent Hitnar undir feldi Lilju Innlent Langþreyttur á TikTok áreiti og rasískum orðsendingum skólakrakka Innlent Óheppileg „læk“ Reykjavíkurborgar: „Okkur þykir þetta miður“ Innlent Hefur áhyggjur af unga fólkinu Innlent „Ég ætla ekki að jarða hann, ég ætla að hafa hann á lífi“ Innlent Dularfull brotlending nærri Area 51 Erlent Handtekinn fyrir að kveikja skæðasta eld Los Angeles Erlent
The annual Skippers d Islande race is currently taking place, a boat race from Paimpol in France to Reykjavík, Iceland. The race was founded to commemorate the French fishermen who came to Iceland at the end of the nineteenth century to fish. The boat race set off from France on June 24th and the skippers arrived in Reykjavik yesterday. Today the Alliance Francaise invites them to a welcome drink and the crews of the boats will walk up the Laugavegur main shopping street at 18.30. On Friday and Saturday "French Days" will be taking place in the city, a promotion of French products organised by the French-Icelandic Chamber of Commerce. The boats leave for Grundarfjörður, west Iceland on Saturday at 13.00 and return to France on July 21st to finish the race. For further info visit www.skippersdislande.com
News News in English Mest lesið Björk styður æskuvinkonu sína sem sætir svívirðingum Innlent Bein útsending: Mótmæla handtöku Möggu Stínu Innlent Magga Stína handtekin í nótt af Ísraelsher Innlent Hitnar undir feldi Lilju Innlent Langþreyttur á TikTok áreiti og rasískum orðsendingum skólakrakka Innlent Óheppileg „læk“ Reykjavíkurborgar: „Okkur þykir þetta miður“ Innlent Hefur áhyggjur af unga fólkinu Innlent „Ég ætla ekki að jarða hann, ég ætla að hafa hann á lífi“ Innlent Dularfull brotlending nærri Area 51 Erlent Handtekinn fyrir að kveikja skæðasta eld Los Angeles Erlent