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Magical mystery tour

June 24, 2008

There’s a place here in Reykjavík called the Family Park and Zoo, which as the name suggests is a park for families [i.e. they have play equipment for kids, rides, etc.] and a sort of mini-zoo, with domesticated farm animals, as well as wild animals found in Iceland: seals, foxes, minks and reindeer. Recently they’ve [...]

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Auf Widersehen, bis bald!

March 13, 2008

Here in Niceland we get the phenomenon known as the árshátíð, which literally translated means ‘annual celebration’ and figuratively translated means ‘a big party in which there is entertainment and everyone gets juiced and to which you must wear really nice clothes and get your hair done beforehand.’ [NB ‘juiced’ is not an absolute requirement, [...]

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Sunshine in a pot and other good stuff

March 2, 2008

Yesterday was a perfect day. Brilliant sunshine in the morning, so EPI and I had the instant desire to stick our cross-country skis in the car and head up to Heiðmörk*. First, though, we had to go grocery shopping at Krónan [formerly known as stupid old Krónan – we shall see if they manage to [...]

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Get this, get the essence

February 24, 2008

EPI and I have just come back from one fantastic concert: Hinn Íslenski þursaflokkur with the Caput ensemble, performing at Laugardalshöll arena. This was their 30th anniversary concert and they reassembled for just this one night, having disbanded in 1982. The Laugardalshöll was packed [it takes around 5,500 people, according to Wikipedia], which gives some [...]

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The last time this happened, I bought a new car

February 21, 2008

My car’s in the shop, so I’ve been zipping around on a rented Toyota Yaris since yesterday. I’m completely smitten. It’s so nimble. So quick. So easy to maneuver out in traffic. I don’t want my old car back. I want the Yaris. SNOWING AGAINBut not too much, so that’s OK. And there’s no wind, [...]

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Adoptakind.is

February 20, 2008

Always dreamed of owning your very own Icelandic sheep but just couldn’t find a place for it out on the balcony? Well, now you can, thanks to kindur.is, which allows you to either adopt or purchase a sheep [aka kind] on an Icelandic farm, name it, choose a ram for breeding, utilize the wool from [...]

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Behind the veil and under the skin

December 17, 2007

I’ve just watched an unbelievably absorbing and powerful documentary entitled Afghanistan Unveiled, which reveals how life has changed for women in the five years since their so-called ‘liberation’ from Taliban rule. Surely there are few places on earth where the circumstances of women are as dire as in Afghanistan today. There are so many war [...]

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YT and EPI enjoy a romantic outing complete with spa, slippers and food to die for

November 18, 2007

Last year when EPI and I got married, our four exceptionally wonderful daughters gave us a fabulous wedding present: a night at the Hotel Saga plus dinner at Grillið, their in-house restaurant that happens to be one of the best in Reykjavík. It’s taken us almost a year to fit this little outing into our [...]

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In absentia Airwaves review

October 22, 2007

Big Thank You, everyone. Your comments on the last post have given me a major boost. It makes such a difference to get a glimpse of the people behind the stats, as it were, and to know their responses to what I’m putting out there. I can’t quite explain why, but it does. So now [...]

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