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 Fundu lík karlmanns í Reynisfjalli Innlent Fjórir í bílnum en enginn við stýrið Innlent Yazan afar létt að vera ekki vísað frá landi Innlent Frambjóðandi Trump lýsti sér sem „svörtum nasista“ á klámsíðu Erlent Kona á níræðisaldri sá björninn í þriggja metra fjarlægð Innlent Sýknaður af ákæru um manndráp af gáleysi á Akureyri Innlent Íbúar Springfield klofnir í afstöðu sinni til heimsóknar Trump Erlent Ákærður fyrir að stinga lækni í kvöldgöngu Innlent Títan bilaði og lenti í árekstri nokkrum dögum fyrir hinstu förina Erlent Ísraelar gera umfangsmiklar loftárásir á skotmörk í Líbanon 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 Fundu lík karlmanns í Reynisfjalli Innlent Fjórir í bílnum en enginn við stýrið Innlent Yazan afar létt að vera ekki vísað frá landi Innlent Frambjóðandi Trump lýsti sér sem „svörtum nasista“ á klámsíðu Erlent Kona á níræðisaldri sá björninn í þriggja metra fjarlægð Innlent Sýknaður af ákæru um manndráp af gáleysi á Akureyri Innlent Íbúar Springfield klofnir í afstöðu sinni til heimsóknar Trump Erlent Ákærður fyrir að stinga lækni í kvöldgöngu Innlent Títan bilaði og lenti í árekstri nokkrum dögum fyrir hinstu förina Erlent Ísraelar gera umfangsmiklar loftárásir á skotmörk í Líbanon Erlent