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Because honesty is its own reward

June 24, 2009

Today AAH, who got her drivers’ licence last September [holy cow it's been almost a year!] bumped into a car in the Kringlan mall parking lot and left a scratch on the bumper of a Citroen Picasso. She came home looking decidedly deflated and admitted the mishap to her mama. I went out and checked [...]

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Restaurant review! American Style fish and chips

May 29, 2009

How long has it been since I’ve done a restaurant review? Ages! And it’s not that I’ve suddenly stopped eating in restaurants because of the kreppa. Truth be told, residents of the rock don’t go out for dinner that often, for one simple reason: it’s bloody expensive. For visitors, obviously, the price has dropped by [...]

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Second place for Niceland in Eurovisonland!

May 17, 2009

I’m going to hold myself back from applying the cheesy title “It is two!” or some variation thereof to the post, although I truly have to restrain myself  – because as many of you will already know, Niceland took second place in the Eurovision Song Contest last night with the song “Is it True“. And [...]

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A love-in on Laugavegur, plus live from the eagle’s nest

May 13, 2009

From today until next Sunday, Iceland’s main drag Laugavegur, which sadly is showing too many signs of dilapidation and neglect in the kreppa [all those empty storefronts] will be the venue for an unusual exhibition: old love letters displayed in the store windows [the stores that remain, that is]. The letters are from a collection [...]

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We’re in the Eurovision finals, but please don’t vote for us*

May 13, 2009

Y’okay, so Niceland made it through to the finals in the Eurovision Song Contest this evening – the sappy, campy contest that everybody here pretends to be totally indifferent about but EVERYBODY watches. It’s the epitome of Iceland’s small-nation complex. Each year we wait with bated breath to see if our song makes it through [...]

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April gags

April 1, 2009

So, here I was, all ready to write a serious post about some gravely serious subject, until I remembered what day it was and realized that serious subjects are not allowed on April 1. Well, not on this blog, anyway. Everyone totally gets into April Fool’s Day here in Iceland. The objective is to get [...]

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In which YT gushes about SKUP

March 25, 2009

The SKUP conference I attended last weekend was just excellent. It was held in the small town of Tønsberg about 100 km south of Oslo and was attended by around 600 journalists and reporters, mostly from Norway but also from abroad. Most people stayed at the hotel where the conference was held and everything about [...]

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Introducing our shiny new online store!!

January 11, 2009

So, EPI the Photoshop guru and YT the Look-Over-the-Shoulder-and-Pontificate guru have been busy little beavers all weekend, creating a selection of products to load on the shelves of our Cafepress Online Store. [wOOt!] Mindful of the enthusiasm that so many of you expressed about the Helvítis Fokking Fokk!! slogan, we’ve created a number of items [...]

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Emiliana steals the show

December 19, 2008

As you’ve probably seen, I’m turning out to be quite rubbish at the headlines thing. Putting them up in the sidebar every day just felt too binding, and – as it turns out – so does putting them in a post every day. Because some days I just don’t feel like blogging about headlines, I [...]

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The end of a long story about a phone

July 22, 2008

… continued from last post YT and the Nicelandic Consumers Union [Neytendasamtökin] go back a long way. Or – well – a few years. We first became acquainted about seven years ago when I owned a dud of a computer that had broken down about six times in two years. I happened to relate the [...]

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