July 2005

The church at Búdir Originally uploaded by Alda Kalda. Remember [if you will] how I said I didn’t like Flickr because it took forever to load and such? Well I’ve changed my mind. I now LOVE Flickr – because it has allowed me to upload a WHOLE BUNCH of my hiking photos for your viewing [...]

Went to see Emiliana Torrini tonight. Her big homecoming since she became a ‘star’ – of sorts, well since she wrote a hit song for Kylie Minogue and got nominated for a Grammy. Now, generally I hate going to concerts a) because you have to stand for hours, b) because I’m short and generally wind [...]

In the news: Liv Ullmann is here to scout around for locations to shoot a film she’s directing, based on a novel by Icelandic golden boy Ólafur Jóhann Ólafsson. Never heard of him? Well then how about Olaf Olafsson? No? Okay, well, I’ll tell you more about him tomorrow and you can bet that it [...]

Here in Iceland we have a groovy system: labour unions buy summer cottages that their members can rent for a nominal fee. [That’s pretty much every salaried employee, because if you work for someone, you belong to a union]. It’s a pretty cool deal. I’ve been going to a cottage belonging to the journalists’ union [...]